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Steve Levitan
"Get in the business with great actors who are brilliantly funny and they'll save you. You'll write brilliant scripts, hopefully most of the time, but occasionally you won't and they'll make them seem brilliant."
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David Poltrack

"I have the best job in the world. I'm involved in all the decisions and responsible for none of them. That's essentially what the research function is: your job is to inform decision-makers… It isn't to make those decisions for them. And that's the way I always look at myself. The bottom line, though, is in reality, you are responsible."  

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Sheila Kuehl
"No gay or lesbian person had ever won even a primary for California for the State Legislature. The thing that actually made it easy was 'Zelda Gilroy.' Everybody already liked 'Zelda.' They liked her a lot. And once you realize your third grade teacher, the nurse that saved your life in the hospital, or your aunt are gay, you change your mind about stuff. 'Zelda' helped people feel they were electing a gay person who they already knew and liked."  
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Ralph M. Baruch
"To make it in television takes persistence… and starting at the bottom. And friends. It's connections."
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Greg Daniels

"When I agreed to do The Office, the British version was not airing anywhere in America. When it did, everybody in the comedy world realized how great it was and it put a lot of pressure on us. All in the Family never had to compete with its British counterpart, but we did."

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Robert Johnson
"The public reaction to BET was very positive. African-Americans had always wanted a network that provided content directly to them on a targeted basis, a chance to showcase their creativity, and to talk about issues of primary concern to them."
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Irma Kalish
"I had a personal adage that - sure, God made man before women, but then you always do a first draft before you make a final masterpiece. So I was known as a proponent of women. But to his credit Rocky was also. He pushed me to get forward and not just be known as 'Rocky's wife' but to be known as Irma Kalish." 
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Jim Cantore
"Weather got hip in the '90s. Movies, commercials... people came out of the closet. I can't say how many emails or written letters I used to get saying, 'Cantore you make this so fun! I want to do what you're doing! I want to do what you're doing!'"
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Caroll Spinney

"You could be almost anything when you're running a puppet. You can play a lady, you could play monsters, you name it.  For instance, Oscar and Big Bird are nothing alike. It's sort of a wonderful stretch. You're still acting, but you're acting at the end of your arm, and out of sight."

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Ian Fraser
"You say you pass down your genes. I just hope that whatever I've imparted musically gets through to my grandchildren and they pass it on to the next grandchildren. That's really how knowledge never dies."
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Vivian Brown
"Katrina was the catalyst for the turning point for The Weather Channel. Prior to it, our main focus was to be the best forecasters in this country. After, we realized that there was so much more in terms of weather stories that we needed to cover. The aftermath is just as important as getting the forecast out."
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Frederic Ziv
"I'm opposed to the idea of networks. I'm opposed to giving them six stations. I'm opposed to the idea that they deserve any stations. We fought the network on every single count."
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Saul Turteltaub

“I used to admire [comedians]…because they would say something and 200 people in the audience would laugh. It was my job when I was doing ‘Sanford’ to make 20 million people all over the country laugh at the same time."

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Alan Raymond

"I maintain that if you make an interesting film, someone will see it."

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Nicolas Noxon
"I think that really television is about being universal. And there's absolutely no point in doing things that appeal to a small number or are understood by a small number of people, because there's so much easier ways to reach them."