Continuing Quote by William Devane Download Open image “Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.” — William Devane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Continuing Shows Stories Want
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I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan. — William Devane Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough… — William Devane Copy Share Image
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I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring. — William Devane Copy Share Image
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer… — William Devane Copy Share Image
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then… — William Devane Copy Share Image
The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. — William Devane Copy Share Image
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And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff,… — William Devane Copy Share Image
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail. — Jerome Corsi Copy Share Image