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Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

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
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The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.
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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 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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I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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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.
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The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
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I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
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Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], This is how it works on this show. It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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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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With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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The whole world is out of time!
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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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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
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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.
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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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