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" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "
Nell Scovell
Got
Blondes
Both
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" The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop. "
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" I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years. "
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" Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew. "
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" The first Emmys I went to was in 1990 when the five nominees for best comedy were 'Designing Women,' 'Golden Girls,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Cheers,' 'Wonder Years.' Three and a half were created by women. "
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" Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice. "
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Hollywood
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" Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money. "
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" I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show. "
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" My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. "
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Late-Night
New
Old
" Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing. "
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Exercise
Keep
" Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy. "
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You
Abuse
Abuse Of Power
" An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians. "
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Appearance
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" Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling. "
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Like
Wonder
Boon
" We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer. "
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Women
Camera
" If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' "
Nell Scovell
Room
Write
Lean
" Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt. "
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Ugly
White
Strategy
" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "
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Behavior
Keep
Bad
" If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses. "
Nell Scovell
Uncle
Progress
Mother
" One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better. "
Nell Scovell
Hell
You
Help
" Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar. "
Nell Scovell
Thought
Funny
Me
" When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus. "
Nell Scovell
Focus
Like
Work
" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "
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Admirer
Davis
" In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits. "
Nell Scovell
Art
Opening
Los Angeles
" I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad. "
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News
Bad
Good News
" Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it. "
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Game
Imitation
Man
" When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes. "
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Father
Children
Blue
" In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact. "
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Feeling
You
Yourself
" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "
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I Think
Empathy
Comedy
" Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry. "
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Barack Obama
Blackberry
Like
" In her darkest hours, Diana, Princess of Wales, could have used a friend like Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The two lived similar lives, a century apart. "
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Darkest
Two
Princess
" My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp. "
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Night
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Short