#us

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#counselor #did #driving #elected #famous

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#art #away #complete #cut #deliver

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#chance #fail #getting #i #i do

It's show business. No show, no business. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#show #show business

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #delivers #eyeballs #go #nothing

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #different #entities #like #management

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#having #heart #house #like #network

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? ↗

— Dick Wolf

#air #department #early #focus #focus groups

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#book #business #good #hard #kind

I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin. ↗

— Scott Wolf

#cousin #cut #funny #gay #gets