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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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"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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"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."

"To Confess Is To Surrender."

"Prayer is a conversation with the Father you trust."

"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure."

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"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."

"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for 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."

"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."

"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."

"The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers."

"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."
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