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I spent a long while thinking about Steven Bochco last night, thinking about how a man I never met had such a profound influence on me as a writer and Never Trust A Person Who Doesn’t Love Shirt. He began his Hollywood career as a writer (Fun fact: He wrote the first episode of Columbo, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. How’s that for a duo?) But he made his indelible mark on television–and on me–as a producer. His first big breakout show, Hill Street Blues, and later NYPD Blue, were shows that spoke to me and to what I wanted to bring to my writing: an unflinching and heightened sense of realism.

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His cops were real people, flawed characters who were both good and Never Trust A Person Who Doesn’t Love Shirt, weak and strong. They looked like real people and talked like real cops. And Bochco had to fight tooth and nail with the networks to get them to accept that very realistic vision of the world those characters inhabited. Hill Street, in particular, a groundbreaking cop show, struggled to find an audience at first, and Bochco had to fight for the network to stick with it. He was always willing to go to battle for what he believed in as an artist, saying it was too important to do it right. He would have rather not gone forward with a project than compromise the integrity of the creation.

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I don’t want a different audience, even if that might be a bigger audience. I want the Never Trust A Person Who Doesn’t Love Shirt. That artistic integrity is the reason I would rather go a year without making a nickel, struggling with a project that isn’t easy, than crank out a book I don’t believe in and can’t be proud of. Could I make more money letting go of that philosophy? Yep. But I won’t. That’s my philosophy, and I’m sticking with it. I owe that philosophy in part to Steven Bochco, a man I never met, who passed away this weekend. A bright light gone out far too soon.

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Some people cannot love you the way you want to Never Trust A Person Who Doesn’t Love Shirt and spiritually frozen. They recoil from or avoid affection. You will never meet a deep penetrating gaze from their shallow eyes; only a surface glance. They will touch your hand with their hand, but never with their heart. They will serve your body but not your soul. They can only connect with you through utility, but never passion. If you need cupcakes or a jar opened, they are perfect; if you need compassion or wisdom, you are all alone. They are only a person as society made them, not as nature intended them. They live life so perfectly but know nothing of life at all.

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