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William Devane

"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."

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"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."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

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"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."
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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
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"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
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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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"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
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"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
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"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
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"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."
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"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
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"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
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