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" In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25. "
Julie Plec
Hospital
Used
Day
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" Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty. "
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" Of every movie that I've seen multiple times, of every TV show that I was obsessed with, I don't think I was ever obsessed with anything more than 'Flowers in the Attic,' which I read 13 times between fourth grade and senior year. "
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" The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of things I don't get done in a given day is longer than the list of things I do. And one of the things that's first to go is watching dailies. "
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" The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me. "
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Before
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" 'Scream' was the first thing he'd ever written that had gotten made, and I'd been in Hollywood for less than two years. "
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" The funny thing about the entertainment business is that we all feel like kids playing in a candy store, but we are entrusted with millions and millions and millions of dollars and an entire industry that can thrive or die on whether or not we do our jobs well or not. "
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" Because I was such a student of pop culture growing up, I love that on the list of things that I got to work on in my first years out of college were 'Scream' and 'Dawson's Creek' and, ultimately now, 'The Vampire Diaries,' which generations below me grew up on and can quote. I love that. I think that is the coolest thing in the world. "
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Love
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" I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for decades. "
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Television
Me
" Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen anymore, till I finish the script, till I get to the point where I'm happy stopping, till I get everything off my plate, because I hate going to bed with a full plate. It makes me very neurotic. "
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Eyes
Hate
Me
" I think Joss Whedon is a genius. "
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Think
Genius
I Think
" If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take six frames off that shot. Hit the music cue right there.' I will drive everybody crazy if left to my own devices in that room. So I try to do everything I can by staying out of the way. "
Julie Plec
Music
Crazy
Walk
" There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being, and that's because we jump ship, and you gracefully extricate yourself from that as well as you can. "
Julie Plec
You
Yourself
Feel
" I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying. "
Julie Plec
Like
Annoying
Bad
" We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans. "
Julie Plec
Live
Party
Fantasy
" I would never say no to continuing to explore the - somebody coined the phrase for me the other day, which I love - 'TVDU,' 'The 'Vampire Diaries' Universe.' I have no desire to exploit it, but I also know that there are plenty of opportunities for stories left to be told. "
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Day
Love
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" The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they'd only just confessed! "
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World
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" I think the model of The CW Network is really built on the fan platform more than anything else. The success or longevity of a series has less to do with the number it's pulling and more to do with the social footprint... There is a lot about the fan support on a strictly business level that's really powerful for that network. "
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Support
Powerful
Business
" The vampire is the new James Dean. "
Julie Plec
Vampire
New
James Dean
" I'm not a morning person, and yet production is a morning person's game. "
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Morning
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Production
" Daily, I visualize the smart-ass troll who lives deep in my subconscious, and I pelt him with rainbows and unicorns. I fight a battle against my judgmental thoughts. And when an opportunity arises to gain acceptance or popularity at the expense of someone else, I zip it. It's not easy. "
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Acceptance
Daily
" Speaking only for myself, the ideal finale to me is 'Friday Night Lights,' where you have loved and worshipped a show for all these years, you get to come back, celebrate the characters, finish up their journeys, and send everyone out with a feeling of, 'My God, I'm so grateful that I got to know these people.' "
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Grateful
People
Night
" There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess. "
Julie Plec
Minds
People
Rain
" I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person. "
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Person
Religious
Pray
" The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were hired. A week later, we were writing it. The minute we handed it in, it was ordered. The minute we shot it, it was picked up. Then we started working. There was never any, like, 'OK, here's what this show is...' We had to figure it out as we went. "
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Week
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" I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning. "
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Sun
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" There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat. "
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You
" I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season. "
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Get
" I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss. "
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Love
" We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out. "
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You
First
Tell