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      "text": "One showrunner for whom I worked a few years back insisted that they could not finalize a script until they got notes from the line cook at his childhood hometown diner... it was his way of making sure he stayed \"real.\"",
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      "text": "While this was the most extreme version of this delusion that I have encountered, it's not that far on the end of the spectrum from the many, many showrunners who believed that bullshit some other successful showrunner once said in a WGA magazine interview about \"the best idea should win, I don't care WHERE it comes from,\" and shows this fealty to their trade unionist roots by continually calling in the twenty-five year old who runs the phones in the reception area to tell the twenty-five year veteran \"that idea you had the other day about how to make this script better.\"",
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      "text": "But you know what you DON'T get to do? (Well, you can do it all you want, actually - most showrunners do - but you can't call yourself \"a human being\" in my book if you do.) You don't get to read the staff writer's first draft - oftentimes the first thing this person has written under the time and content restrictions of a writing staff - and say \"wow, they just don't 'get it' and I'm going to fire them.\"",
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      "text": "More work, Sparky, I know. But... as the now-classic song taught us all: \"It's hard out here for a pimp.\"",
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