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Television Writer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
Jonathan Nolan
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If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.
Frank Spotnitz
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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Steven Moffat
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The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.
Steven Moffat
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The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.
Jonathan Nolan
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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
Norman Lear
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I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
Chuck Lorre
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In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
Adrian Hodges
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You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.
Eric Kripke
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You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Write what you’re scared about.
Jason Katims
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... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.
Gary Reilly
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Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!
Steven Moffat
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Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
Steven Moffat
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We're in the second golden age of television, and to me, one of the most profound things that's happening in TV is just that by default that opened the door to more women, more people of color, more outliers. It's one of the greatest side effects of the digital revolution.
Marti Noxon
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If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
Steven Moffat
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Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
Eric Kripke
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Charles Osgood
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Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
Steven Moffat
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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
Larry Gelbart
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If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on them. Having spent time with that, it can be an incredibly terrifying job.
Veena Sud
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You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.
Frank Spotnitz
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Casting is really weird. Honestly, when Alan Ruck's name came up - and I've worked with Alan before - I went, Yes, he's perfect. He came in and read for us, which was really sweet of him because he didn't have to, and he nailed it in seconds. We knew exactly who we had. That stuff is really good and fun.
Remi Aubuchon
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