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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."
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"Life is a dancing mind, loving heart, caring soul, and wandering thoughts."
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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
Being
"If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day."
Age
"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
Want
"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."
Trust
"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."
Architecture
"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
Potential
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
Writer
"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
"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."
Business
"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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