Greg Berlanti Quotes

#1. Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Katie Cassidy

#2. I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

Tom Cavanagh

#3. Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.

Geoff Johns

#4. Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

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#5. For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

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#6. At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.

Richard Kerry

#7. Especially with DVRs nowadays, people have their roster. More and more, it's not just, 'I'll watch what's on at 9 P.M.' They have their backlog of the shows they always watch, that they record every week, and it's a matter of, how do you get into that list?

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#8. Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

Bikram Choudhury

#10. I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

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#11. You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

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#12. It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

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#13. I gave up practically the whole world for you," I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. "The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.

Jandy Nelson

#14. I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

Klaus Schwab

#15. The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#16. We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

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#17. Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

Alex Mack

#18. His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Richard Mitchell

#19. The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.

Jim Berg

#20. There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general.

Greg Berlanti

#21. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

Neil Gaiman

#22. There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Jacqueline Woodson

#23. I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

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#24. What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture ... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

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