The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

White does not exist in nature.

No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

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