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"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."
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"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well."
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"Leadership is relationship."
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"There are no managers like there used to be managers."
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead."
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"I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup."
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"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."
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"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
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"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make."
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"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
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"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits."
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"People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity."
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"The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change."
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"People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time."
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"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
People
"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."
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"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."
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"There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes."
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