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Television Writer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.
Jonathan Nolan
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My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.
Gary Reilly
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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
Steven Moffat
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People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.
Damon Lindelof
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Many of the trans women who are in our world are also in Caitlyn's Jenner world. And yes I've definitely spoken to her multiple times, talked to her, socialized with her. It's a small community when all is said and done, the trans community in Los Angeles. So everybody really knows each other and everybody's in contact.
Jill Soloway
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
Norman Lear
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
Eric Kripke
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I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
Jill Soloway
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
Norman Lear
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I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.
Jonathan Nolan
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And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would have one. But, there will be none of those maddening teases that we're going to tell you the answers and then we don't tell you the answers. That gave NBC the idea of making it a mini-series.
Remi Aubuchon
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It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
Steven Moffat
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It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
Eric Kripke
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When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back into 20 or 40 or 60 hours of a television series. I think a great movie is really amazing. But, television does give you a larger canvas.
Frank Spotnitz
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Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
Jane Espenson
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I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.
Alec Sulkin
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I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching.
Jonathan Nolan
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It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
Charles Osgood
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Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.
Greg Daniels
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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
Norman Lear
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Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going
Tracy McMillan
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I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
Steven Moffat
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
Damon Lindelof
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