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“I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.” quote by Dick Wolf — Download Open image

“I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.”

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I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because…

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I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

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The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is…

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People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone…

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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

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And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

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“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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