Warren Leight Quotes
If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I like to be who I am.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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The best of seers is he who guesses well.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.
