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“I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."”

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I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

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By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

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It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

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When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person…

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You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what's working.

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I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself.…

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Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

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If something's working, you lean into it. You don't fight it.

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In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

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Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

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With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

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Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

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Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;)

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

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“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,”

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A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

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History is the study of the world's crime

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

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