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Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Butterfly Book," said Jessie. "The Shell Book," said Violet. "The Flower Book," said Henry. "Oh, these three books must belong to a set.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER

for Benny, J for Jessie, V for Violet, H for Henry, and G for grandfather

Gertrude Chandler Warner

People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

The World Cup is not a normal one-day series.

One-day cricket is about the World Cup and Test cricket is about the Ashes.

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.

Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

The British series I was part of, 'Beecham House,' directed by Gurinder Chadha, was set in 1795. That was also an incredible experience, just to see the kind of research that goes into recreating that time period.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.

I'm like the king of the low-budget sequel. People ask, 'What film are you gonna do next?' 'I don't know, but it's probably got a 3 or 4 in the title.'

'Dynasty' is such an appealing title in and of itself, not even knowing about the original series. It's a word that evokes power and legacy and a certain level of epic-ness.

To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.