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Stephen J Cannell

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

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Stephen J Cannell

I love ‘Dexter.’ The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

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Stephen J Cannell

I can write a book in probably three months.

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Stephen J Cannell

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don’t look at it. I never have to look at it.

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Stephen J Cannell

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.

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Stephen J Cannell

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

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Stephen J Cannell

I’ve been very successful at selling my things, but I’ve also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

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Stephen J Cannell

Once you put something like ‘The A-Team’ on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people’s shows when I was creating my shows.

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Stephen J Cannell

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

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Stephen J Cannell

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I’d say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

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Stephen J Cannell

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.

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Stephen J Cannell

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

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