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"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."
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"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
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"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
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"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
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"In this nation, leadership is dollars."
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"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
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"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."
Money
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
Leadership
"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
People
"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
Leadership
"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."
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"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
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