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Mel Shavelson
"If you are an original and if you can write, you can't stop it.  A real writer always writes. And it's the loneliest and the toughest."
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Newton N. Minow

"To my way of thinking, that speech was badly misinterpreted. It didn't condemn all of television. It said there are great things in television which are unique in uniting and serving the country, but you, the broadcasters, have got to remember that you are trustees for all of us. That you have got to pay more attention to your obligations to children. You've got to pay more attention to not only the bottom line, but to public service."

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Richard Donner

"If I came on to direct a running series it could be a drag because you couldn't change the characters, the lead characters, the sustaining characters. You didn't want to create a whole new visual style because it was established. But the anthologies and pilots I loved doing- on those you could always try something new and different."

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Ann B. Davis
"I remember my first 'demographic report' on the 'Brady Bunch.' I was with a friend, who told her little girl, 'honey, you remember Shultzy?' The girl said, 'that's not Schultzy, that's Alice!' I knew that we were coming along....  Today, people with three-piece suits and briefcases suddenly become twelve when they're walking by me. That just breaks me up and I love it!" 
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Lloyd J. Schwartz

"I don't understand what, 'knew that it was much more than a hunch' means.  I've talked to Dad about it and he said, 'I needed a rhyme for 'bunch'. And then he'd say, 'look I showed them how well the song has done, so don't argue with me.'"

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Fred de Cordova

"People say to me all the time, 'Please bring Johnny Carson back.' If I could, I wouldn't. He just belongs where he is. Right on top."

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Jeff Zucker
"I think that the most important thing for a television producer and a television executive to do is to have passion. If they don't love what they're doing and write about what they believe in or write about what they know or go with their gut as an executive, then they're going to be lost."