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Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

You don't give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

I really like performing for people.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

You can't tell the audience - well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience - that anything they're watching doesn't matter.

You'll be perfect when you're dead

I was raised on NBC television.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.