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Roy Huggins
"I did some things that were widely imitated. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That was flattering to me. 'Maverick' was imitated, 'The Fugitive' was imitated. I did all right. I had a great time."
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Richard L. Bare

"...The best time of my life, I think creatively, was doing short [films] for ten years at the same time I did features. Then when television came in for Warner Brothers that's what I did. I was able to do everything concurrently and it was fun."

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Hal Needham
"I'm not a specialist. I was the first stuntman that could do everything. Whether it was water, horses, cars, motorcycles, whatever. When I came in, everybody was a specialist. If you did horses, that's what you did. If you were a swordsman or a fight man, or car, motorcycle...that's what you did. I went up the ladder so fast because I could do it all."
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Clint Walker

"I think they had all the leading men available in Hollywood to test for 'Cheyenne' two days in a row and they had me test with them. The first day I was very, very nervous. I could see all these people that I'd seen in pictures over the years and I thought, 'I don't stand a chance.' The second day I thought, 'I'm not going to get the job anyway so why don't I just relax and enjoy it.' Which I did. Then the next thing I heard about four days later was Jack Warner reviewed all the stuff, pointed to me and said, 'That is 'Cheyenne.''"

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Bill Persky
"The Dick Van Dyke Show" gave writers something to aspire to. There was a purity about humanity... nobody was vicious. Funny is when we are brought down from being too pompous about being human beings."
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Sam Denoff
"Take great joy in, in everything you write. Irving Berlin was interviewed.. they said, 'Mister Berlin, you have more songs than any other writer living or dead..what is your favorite song?'  And he said- 'the last one I wrote', which really says it. It says his pride in authorship... After years of doing this, every time I write something, whether it's a paragraph or something somebody wants something for a benefit or whatever.. I hope they like it. We all do that. As long as you keep that attitude I think you'll be good."
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George Shapiro

"Bombing is part of the process of putting a good act together. You have to embrace it. You'll be in pain. You'll feel terrible. I've seen comedians crying after it… but bombing gives you the opportunity of knowing what doesn't work, and then starting new jokes. It's essential that a comedian bombs. Just stay with it, learn from it, and keep doing it. Get back on the horse -- there's a reason for that old cliché." 

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Bill Dana

"There is nothing that comes close to the elixir of humor- the approbation, the applause; no narcotic comes close. To stand on a stage and have people stand up and clap and say 'you done good, and now I can survive this day.'  Yeah, oh it's worth it."

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Steve Allen

"I honestly don't think I would change anything. Some people say, 'I bet you wouldn't give up "The Tonight Show."' No, I would give it up as fast as I gave it up the first time. In fact, how Johnny Carson, how any human being, was able to stay behind that desk for 30 years, I could have never done that. It would have driven me crazy."