"One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea."

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Source : "Alex Gansa walks us through Homeland's first season (Part 2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2012.

Alex Gansa

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“No person ever died that had a family.”
“The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]”
“If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.”
“Death did not play favoritesâ€”He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's voiceâ€”not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mindâ€””
“History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers.”

Source : Source: www.marxists.org
“We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.”
“We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

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