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William Devane

"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."

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"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Asa Don Brown

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Asa Don Brown

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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Asa Don Brown

"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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Asa Don Brown

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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Asa Don Brown

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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Asa Don Brown

"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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Asa Don Brown

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

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William Devane
"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."

Time

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

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William Devane
"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."

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William Devane
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

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William Devane
"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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William Devane
"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."

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William Devane
"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."

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William Devane
"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."

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William Devane
"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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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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