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" Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that. "
Nina Tassler
Living
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Rooms
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" When I was in drama development, you hear anywhere between 500 to 600 pitches a season, and you do feel like you hit the wall. But I will never say, 'No, I won't hear that.' "
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" I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing 'Lois & Clark.' The chemistry between Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher was really wonderful. "
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" With all of our big-hit shows - like 'Big Bang Theory,' and even 'How I Met Your Mother' - when they first started, you have multiple characters to service, and you want to make sure that the audience has a chance to get the concept, get the emotional arc, and really engage with the relationships. "
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" Without the nontraditional methods we used to promote 'Jericho'... we wouldn't have been able to get the traction we did. "
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" You have to make your decision based on the content. "
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" I'm extremely lucky that I've worked for and with amazing people in my life. "
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" Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative. "
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" Rob Doherty has been a real superstar for us on 'The Mentalist' for years. "
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" I went through a lot of feelings of self-doubt and loss of self-esteem. I was particularly vulnerable after having my son. It was rough getting back on my feet in the business. "
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" My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that. "
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" I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers. "
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Bible
Story
" In 1963, my parents took over a camp business from my grandparents. They turned it into a liberal, progressive, a co-educational, interracial camp for kids from all over the world, all over the country. And it was a very important cause for both of my parents. "
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Parents
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" Tom Selleck is a big draw. "
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Big
Draw
" Accepting fear head-on is freeing. "
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Fear
Freeing
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" I'd love to see the 'CSIs' run forever. "
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" I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle. "
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Watching
Brother
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Mother
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Positive
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" Whomever you are and whatever your relationship is to work, I think we all have suffered from being over-hyphenated. You know, 'working-mom,' 'tiger-mom,' 'stay-at-home-mom'... how about 'mom?' "
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" 'Zoo' further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale. "
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" Failure is a fundamental factor of success. "
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