"Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'"

-- Dick Wolf

#Successful Quotes #Risk Quotes #Loser Quotes

“The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject. If the poem is thin, it is likely so not because the poet does not know enough words, but because he or she has not stood long enough among the flowers--has not seen them in any fresh, exciting, and valid way.”
“You just have to believe in a corporate pulse.”
“I never got into politics for it to be a career.”

Source : "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview With Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.
“No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.118, Penguin
“Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?”
“Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.”
“I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.”
“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”

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