Steven Levitan Quotes

#1. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

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#2. Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

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#3. I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

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#4. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Bobby Thomson

#5. With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

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#6. A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

Renata Adler

#7. Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

Beverly Jenkins

#8. Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

John Ashbery

#9. I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

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#10. If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

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#12. I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

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#13. At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories ... and that requires virtually no technology.

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#14. I'm Irish. We think sideways

Spike Milligan

#15. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

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#16. I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Joe Wright

#17. In the chalky trough under the blackboard
are lessons dusted and already forgotten.
The teacher is squawking away once more,
scratching into the dark Welsh tabula rasa
the truths so far about God and arithmetic
with the expungible white of fossil shells.

Richie McCaffery

#18. Hey, it's okay. I'm nervous, too."
I stared at him in amazement.
"You're nervous ... why?"
"Because it's you," he said simply.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#19. What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

Steven Levitan

#20. Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.

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#21. If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Anita Roddick

#22. I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

Jessica Sanchez

#23. None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.

Steven Levitan

#24. I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.

Steven Levitan

#25. Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

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#26. I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

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#27. I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

David Wells