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Television Writer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
Larry Gelbart
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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.
Norman Lear
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I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.
Marc Guggenheim
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I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, This feels off-kilter for this particular person.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.
Jenji Kohan
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I think that we, as writers, get excited by risk. When we are feeling comfortable and familiar, I wouldn't say that we get bored, but the energy in the room gets flat. When we're most excited and when the show is the most fun, it's when we're duking things out.
Damon Lindelof
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Life is about having a good time.
Norman Lear
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It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
Steven Moffat
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Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
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The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.
Frank Spotnitz
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Life is never quite like the brochure.
Chuck Lorre
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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
Norman Lear
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We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show. But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty I'm like, There's a glass?
Damon Lindelof
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Good things come to those with no expectations.
David X. Cohen
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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
Diane Frolov
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The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.
Veena Sud
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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
Norman Lear
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In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
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I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.
Eric Kripke
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To be able to be there first, I love the pioneer thing. It's exciting to me. And they pay full rate, they're really nice, they support the work, and they said yes. What could be bad? It's the Wild West. You can do what you want.
Jenji Kohan
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It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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