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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
Explore more quotes by Dick Wolf

"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."

"I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line."

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."

"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"

"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric."

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."
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