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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
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"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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"Television is intensely personal."
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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
Family
"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
Winning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
Books
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
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