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The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere. - Terence Winter
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I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling. - Terence Winter
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I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while. - Terence Winter
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As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion. - Terence Winter
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I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior. - Terence Winter
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I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. - Terence Winter
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One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about 'The Sopranos', having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side. - Terence Winter
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I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace. - Terence Winter
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When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. - Terence Winter
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If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas. - Terence Winter
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I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general. - Terence Winter
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Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster. - Terence Winter
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Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. - Terence Winter
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I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get. - Terence Winter
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The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more. - Terence Winter
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