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• ‟ When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

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• ‟ When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.

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• ‟ Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

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• ‟ I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

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• ‟ What I found fascinating for me was, I've never gotten so much approval and accolades and warmth and congratulations as when I had a guy on my arm that people thought I was going to marry. It was amazing. I mean, nobody congratulated me that hard when I had my three children.

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• ‟ Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as you. That's how I can have more shows.

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• ‟ People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

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• ‟ My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can't tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script.

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• ‟ Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions.

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