Evan Katz quote: "Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real."

Often, Kiefer's portrayal is riveting. He's really able to make these occasionally ridiculous situat...
EVAN KATZ

This year is sort of about rebirth as well as the nature of vengeance and justice.
EVAN KATZ

We know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat, and we try to get the first four to six episodes ...
EVAN KATZ

It's not a ridiculous contrast; it's more a man hiding a secret and being a little smarter about how...
EVAN KATZ

We know we take liberties in that regard, but CTU clearly is a very efficient and effective (agency)...
EVAN KATZ

Last year, we didn't know that Jack wouldn't wind up dead. We know in general we'll avert a terroris...
EVAN KATZ

We can't tell you how. We can't tell you for how long. We can't tell you how it ends.
EVAN KATZ

We're about two episodes ahead on a good run.
EVAN KATZ

The reason the audience doesn't see the twists coming is, we don't either.
EVAN KATZ

Men are every bit as gendered as women.
JACKSON KATZ

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention ge...
JACKSON KATZ

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Re...
JACKSON KATZ

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football p...
JACKSON KATZ

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they...
JACKSON KATZ

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happen...
JACKSON KATZ

Language usage always has a political context.
JACKSON KATZ

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know ...
JACKSON KATZ

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the ...
JACKSON KATZ

Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is h...
JACKSON KATZ

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
JACKSON KATZ

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is ...
JACKSON KATZ

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
JACKSON KATZ

In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
JACKSON KATZ

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t...
JACKSON KATZ

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricatur...
JACKSON KATZ

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, an...
JACKSON KATZ

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
JACKSON KATZ

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She r...
JACKSON KATZ

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood tha...
JACKSON KATZ

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse ...
JACKSON KATZ

I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
OMRI KATZ

I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
OMRI KATZ

I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and thi...
OMRI KATZ

I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
OMRI KATZ

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o...
JON KATZ

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
ELLIE KATZ

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,&...
JACKSON KATZ

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter...
JON KATZ

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. N...
JON KATZ

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led...
JON KATZ

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose...
JON KATZ

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are s...
JON KATZ

It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life a...
JON KATZ

Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall...
JON KATZ

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a...
JON KATZ

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ...
JON KATZ

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O...
JON KATZ

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c...
JON KATZ

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr...
JON KATZ

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei...
JON KATZ

A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake...
JON KATZ

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci...
JON KATZ

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w...
JON KATZ

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors...
JON KATZ

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life...
JON KATZ

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th...
JON KATZ

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t...
JON KATZ

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting...
JON KATZ

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to he...
JACKSON KATZ

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It...
JACKSON KATZ

Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family...
JON KATZ

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboa...
JONATHAN KATZ

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is m...
JACKSON KATZ

As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide w...
JACKSON KATZ

My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitione...
JON KATZ

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness
ELLIE KATZ

Clearly the market is giving this a thumb's up. Steve Jobs would have a huge vested interest in maki...
DAVID KATZ

We will not tolerate this budget being balanced on the backs of hardworking public workers. This gov...
CARLA KATZ

Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ

The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?
ELLIE KATZ

We actually eat less than our ancestors, despite the fact that we eat more than we should. Since we ...
DAVID KATZ

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,
ADAM KATZ

There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it
BERNIE KATZ

It was a lemonade stand and bake sale on a large scale.
STEVEN KATZ

It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' dropping...
JON KATZ

The most significant and poignant part of the event is it's our chance every year for the entire syn...
ALAN KATZ

It's a very generous grant. We figure that for the 167 children we sign up, they'll subsidize 833 mo...
ALAN KATZ

Even if an employer offers coverage for dependents, most people in Humboldt County have to pay for i...
ALAN KATZ

One of the biggest gaps in health care in Humboldt County is in dental care, and the enhanced premiu...
ALAN KATZ

The program is not an entitlement. If enrollment runs ahead of fundraising, a waiting list is a poss...
ALAN KATZ

One marketing mistake many retailers make is not doing anything to recognize their best customers. O...
ALLAN KATZ

Retailers who haven't already invested in a POS system think they are too expensive.
ALLAN KATZ

It can cost 10 times more for a retailer to get a new customer than to get more business from existi...
ALLAN KATZ

Most retailers are busy putting out fires all day. They have to spend their time working in their bu...
ALLAN KATZ

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the p...
BERNARD KATZ

Could it be done? Yes, ... But there would be unpleasant side effects for a guy. I wouldn't rush off...
DAVID KATZ

The inauguration is a non-event.
DAVID KATZ

In the laboratory, our researchers have been very impressed with the ability of these extracts to sl...
AARON KATZ

Some patients aren't good candidates for current therapy strategies. Plus recent studies suggest tha...
AARON KATZ

I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ

This was more of a spur-of-the-moment thing. Its kind of hectic.
AARON KATZ

Weve made it tough for looters to get into the neighborhoods, ... We work with a military police uni...
AARON KATZ

If the wind didnt knock it over, the water did, ... Highway 90 that runs east and west along the coa...
AARON KATZ

If we were told not to park people there, we wouldn't park people there,
AARON KATZ

Not only are you not getting any benefit, you're also getting increased calories and sugar, ... In t...
DAVID KATZ

Someone who is hiding something is usually paranoid that it's showing too much, or maybe not enough.
DAVID KATZ

This simplification of 'Wellness' to the 'Power to Be Happy' is part of a larger social trend to emb...
BARBARA KATZ

We felt it was very important to let commissioners know we cannot support it because it violates the...
BARBARA KATZ

Residents should not deal with residents. We have to live with each other. We have a management comp...
BARBARA KATZ

That's where the big problem is. They want to put the grandchildren in the pool. It's human nature. ...
BARBARA KATZ

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect...
JONATHAN KATZ

Many young people have told me how a boyfriend or girlfriend will grab the phone when they are not a...
JAMES KATZ

As a boy, I remember the hypocrisy of Catholic school kids who, after peeling off like dive-bombers ...
BERNARD KATZ

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
BERNARD KATZ

No religious organization must be allowed to impose its biased views on the rest of us about what th...
BERNARD KATZ

I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy t...
JON KATZ

Any dog is capable of biting. When you're getting a dog, you're getting an animal with teeth. They a...
JOHN KATZ

I'd say it's iffy for a 2.
ANDY KATZ

That's the key. Nobody's planning on decreasing. It's an interesting market, definitely an employee ...
ANDY KATZ

I don't see why they wouldn't be in. I think they've done enough. They're a competitive team and you...
ANDY KATZ

With a shrinking labor pool and a lower unemployment rate, employers are going to have to find ways ...
ANDY KATZ

For the most part, we are still a service economy. But I see a lot of new businesses with a need for...
ANDY KATZ

That's the nature of the beast in this city. There's so much construction happening here, and so man...
ANDY KATZ

Some of the people will be coming to Israel for the first time. They will be caught up in a whirlwin...
ANDY KATZ

Three years from now, if the same things are happening, then maybe it would be time to do something....
ANDY KATZ

In the Big Ten, every team is so young so I don't think its necessarily going to hurt them.
ANDY KATZ

To be frank, I'm bewildered by what has gone on here. There doesn't seem to be a plan that was reall...
BRUCE KATZ

He came back, battled through it and earned some minutes. It culminates with him getting a full scho...
BRIAN KATZ

If you look at long-term trends in the markets the last 20, 30, 40 years, they are typically seven- ...
DAVID KATZ

Unfortunately, discussing spending can be such a touchy topic that many couples simply avoid it all ...
RHONDA KATZ

[The outlook for Japan is not all cherry blossoms and sake, though.] We don't have a boom in consump...
RICHARD KATZ

The problem is getting a taxi to the airport. There aren't any.
BRIAN KATZ

Three years ago, you had irrational exuberance, ... Currently you've got irrational despondency.
DAVID KATZ

We just decided since it would be only a few games left, it wasn't worth it, ... and we will revisit...
ADAM KATZ

Sammy always spoke very highly of Miguel. I'm unaware of any rift.
ADAM KATZ

They've had impressive results. The majority of the horses are back racing. Nobody is really sure ho...
ADAM KATZ

Certainly [we'll] explore it,
ADAM KATZ

Sammy has a lot of confidence he has a lot left in the tank.
ADAM KATZ

This whole sector is exploding. Cosmetic companies are rushing to get on board. They know this is th...
BRUCE KATZ

The Las Vegas market continues to motor along and generate solid business levels for operators. Tren...
DAVID KATZ

When I'm driving here I see a sign that says, CAUTION: SMALL CHILDREN PLAYING. I slow down, and then...
JONATHAN KATZ

My client . . . is extremely upset and offended at the personal affronts contained in the letter dir...
RICHARD KATZ

Anderson and McDermott were two names I was told are high on the list.
ANDY KATZ

This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers, ... You could get a voucher in New Orlea...
BRUCE KATZ

This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers. You could get a voucher in New Orleans a...
BRUCE KATZ

They are not scars.
ROBERT KATZ

[It's a] natural process ... The result is essentially a great song-oriented white soul group with f...
AARON KATZ

But there's no ethical, social or political controversy
ADAM KATZ

Abbott Labs [is] absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last fi...
DAVID KATZ

Happily it's a new Disney. They have a new CEO and one of the good things he's done is mend a lot of...
DAVID KATZ

There's nothing he can do about it now. It's more comfortable for him to be in Miami. That's it. The...
ADAM KATZ

The way the original deal was set up, it was not terribly likely for anybody else to acquire Scherin...
DAVID KATZ

That puts intense pressure on the victim to withdraw from the case. For a lot of victims, this is no...
JACKSON KATZ

[Katz, defeated by Street four years ago, was cautious in his remarks Wednesday and said any] innuen...
SAM KATZ

We're looking for best-of-breed content in everything we do, and we relish getting access to Rivals ...
DAVID KATZ

The economic repercussions are profound. The recovery is going to be slowed. Your workforce is not g...
BRUCE KATZ

we do think the housing market is going to be okay. It's not going to fall off a cliff. That environ...
DAVID KATZ

Empower the neighborhood to be part of this process.
PETER KATZ

This could be a very interesting week. A lot of things could happen between now and the end of the y...
BRIAN KATZ

Besides being a great person, he's been our most consistent player. He's a good 3-point shooter, he'...
BRIAN KATZ

We're getting better. We had 34 offensive rebounds in two games last week, and I told the guys if we...
BRIAN KATZ

I thought for a tenth of a second that we were going to play the next day for the state title. The G...
BRIAN KATZ

I never discuss the officiating. I know it's tempting sometimes right after an emotional game, but I...
BRIAN KATZ

We changed our flight last night, there was no problem there. The problem is getting a taxi to the a...
BRIAN KATZ

Those kinds of things wear on you after a while. If you miss a few, if you're worried about getting ...
BRIAN KATZ

He's figured out how we've wanted him to play all year, and that's anchor the middle and change shot...
BRIAN KATZ

When the (Big 7) was formed, it was considered to be a power conference. It's lived up to its billin...
BRIAN KATZ

[Symbol Technologies is] not a household name but everybody knows their products. They're a bar codi...
DAVID KATZ

Whole Foods is going to give identity to the neighborhood, ... The New Urbanism: Toward an Architect...
PETER KATZ

The CEO basically antagonized (Wall Street) on every answer, and just left everybody feeling entirel...
DAVID KATZ

Okay, so the answer is no, then. And you can't even say it. I find it very disturbing that you can't...
SAM KATZ

We need to bring some new blood to the table, some new ideas,
SAM KATZ

in addition to existing police shifts, which will not change.
SAM KATZ

I'm a builder, not a manager,
SAM KATZ

I want a city government that doesn't embarrass us.
SAM KATZ

human face of corruption.
SAM KATZ

The number one priority for citizens of Winnipeg is roads and bridges,
SAM KATZ

trying to satisfy the media.
SAM KATZ

We stay hungry longer the more diverse the flavors in a meal or snack. If flavors are thoughtfully d...
DAVID KATZ

We've been discussing with them for the last six or eight weeks an extension of the contract. It app...
RICHARD KATZ

Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ

I had a spinal tap, which didn't hurt. I had an MRI, where they put you in tube [for] 45 minutes, an...
JONATHAN KATZ

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
JONATHAN KATZ

Politically, it will be helpful to Israel to say to the world, here we are, we have taken a concrete...
JONATHAN KATZ

A lot of these business owners did not know what the source of the money was. ... He very well might...
JONATHAN KATZ

We wouldn't be where we are today without the vision, commitment and hard work of people like Phil w...
JONATHAN KATZ

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by...
JONATHAN KATZ

[Sosa has been in Miami since Sept. 7, rehabbing his latest toe injury.] He is doing well and, basic...
ADAM KATZ

We think over the next six months [Citigroup] stock is going to have a very sharp rebound. So, if yo...
DAVID KATZ

One of the reasons I disclosed my condition is because it is much easier to live with MS than to pre...
JONATHAN KATZ

He's walking a delicate line in balancing the different constituencies, but so far he's done everyth...
DAVID KATZ

Minutes before he got shot in temple, he told me he wanted to buy concert tickets for a congregant b...
STEPHEN KATZ

You had GE and Citigroup with uninspiring news, and higher oil prices. We think after today's sell-o...
DAVID KATZ

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding be...
JONATHAN KATZ

Fat tissue is the bamboo of human tissue. They're in abundance, replenishable and easily acquired.
ADAM KATZ

Lobbyists have a tendency to advise their clients that the majority of their contributions should go...
ALLAN KATZ

We're just happy to be playing another week. Let's tee it up and see how we do.
BRIAN KATZ

Five years ago we were seen as mavericks. Now there is a sense of validation and growing enthusiasm ...
ADAM KATZ

Social change is a messy process. We need more men with the guts to stand up and say abusive behavio...
JACKSON KATZ

There's a streak of alienation running through this culture, ... There's a streak of braininess, obs...
JON KATZ

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
BERNARD KATZ

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long...
JACKSON KATZ

They are draconian and really unacceptable.
CARLA KATZ

I'm bewildered by what has gone on here.
BRUCE KATZ

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

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Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

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