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Television Writer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.
Jane Espenson
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Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit. That was really fun.
Jenji Kohan
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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
Steven Moffat
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I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.
Bridget Carpenter
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Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.
Jane Espenson
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What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.
Steven Moffat
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I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.
Adrian Hodges
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Finding meaning in the relationships that we have with one another - that's the only way to achieve any kind of fundamental true grace and that points to where it all ends up. It's let's stop being away some place, let's be here. It's, let's be in this.
Damon Lindelof
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We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.
Jane Espenson
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By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there. It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.
Veena Sud
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I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!
Steven Moffat
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I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
Larry Gelbart
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I'm trying to focus as much on the here and now as possible. To live my life in a way that the humans that I know here on the planet Earth feel like they've been treated with respect by me, whether they're people that I'm very close to or the audience who's watching my work.
Damon Lindelof
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He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?
Andrew Kreisberg
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I'm a recovering optimist.
Larry Gelbart
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The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
Norman Lear
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
Damon Lindelof
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We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.
Jenji Kohan
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We figured the interesting question for them is, Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them? So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!
Steven Moffat
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It will feel boring when you're bingeing.
Jill Soloway
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Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
Jane Espenson
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
Damon Lindelof
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