- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.
- Exeter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have had conversations with Lucasfilm, and we continue to have them. I think it would be wonderful to extend that brand onto our programming.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a fan of the Marvel shows. I think some of what they're doing and the work on Netflix is fantastic.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020