Quotes by Stephen J. Cannell - Page 1

I can write a book in probably three months.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Book
Three
Writing
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Bottles
Tvs
Bottle
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Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Mean
Parent
School
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The character's attitude is more important than plot.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Attitude
Character
Writing
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I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Sense Of Humor
Dexter
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I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Grades
School Three High School
Flunked
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I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Hesitate
Influenced
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I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
County
Married
Pasadena
Sweetheart
Born I Was Born Up
Grade
Hospital
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I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Selling
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My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Furniture
Interior
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My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Best Friend
Negativity
Life Success Best
Worshipped
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I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Credit
Work Myself Me
Delude
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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Structure
Good Believe World
Acts
Good World Believe
However
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I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Carried
Deficits
Ended
Formed
Largest
Negatives
Owned
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Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Kids
Class
Perfect
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I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Life Work Believe
Concept
Ten Times
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I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Firsts
Online
Television
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I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Gun
I Am Better People
Fastest
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Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Encouraging
Business Always Me
Successes
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I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Home
Coffee
Cream
Office
Storm
Temperature
Did
Every Day
Fireplace
Happening
Outside
Waited
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Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Dna
Grab
Map
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I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Home
Coffee
Office
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Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Average
Good People More
Fairly
Pretty Good
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I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don't look at it. I never have to look at it.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Matured
Pages
Button
Hardly
Outline
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The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Plot
Bad Guy
Good Always Difficult
Catch
Chase
Easiest
Good Bad Difficult
Runs
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So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.
Stephen J. Cannell / Television Producer
Darkness
Energy
Guy
Involved
Moral
Righteous
Waste
Person
Around
Battles
Grudges
Carrying
Create
Gets
Having
So Many People
Themselves
Tons
Where
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