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born 1954
René Balcer (February 9, 1954) is an Emmy-award-winning Canadian-American television writer, producer and director. He is principally known as the head writer and executive producer of Law & Order and for creating Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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I'll make sure you go away for so long, they'll be planting tomatoes on Mars by the time you get out.
In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.
See? That's what happens when you keep people from doing what they do best: It makes them insane.
Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.
It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.
The search for truth...It's not for the faint-hearted.
Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.
I’m sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take 'em up to Battery Park and hang 'em by the scrotum.
I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.
Women write crime better than men do. Men tend to play it safe, relying on an old-boy's network (to get work). Women feel freer. They swing for the bleachers.
Bad guys do what good guys dream.
Your client's not insane... he's in love. Maybe it's hard for you to tell the two apart, but the law can.
Oh, the Patriot Act. I read that in its original title, 1984.
Just how far up your ass is your head?!
The more I know, the less I sleep.
Justice is a jagged road.
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