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"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
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"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."

"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."

"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."

"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."

"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."

"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."

"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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"Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust."

"Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays."

"It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by others."

"Only God is our reliable help and protection."

"I've yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."
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