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"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."

"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."

"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."

"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"

"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."

"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself."
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"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."

"We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy."

"It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun."

"My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years."

"It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights."

"It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret."

"I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly."

"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."
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