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

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.

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

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 don't know about homeless, but I'm never going to let you be hopeless. Or loveless. To be heartless however, well, that is your choice to make.

We ain’t going to curse anyone, ” said Granny firmly. “It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve done it.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Oops! I always thought PETA stood for Please Eat This Animal.

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)