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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 17
Dancer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
Television Writer
LA
California
Amy Palladino
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Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
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These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
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If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.
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I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
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It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
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I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.
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