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" For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment. "
Nell Scovell
Had
Always
Been
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" Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown. "
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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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" I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show. "
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" The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.' "
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" Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep. "
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" The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog. "
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Police
Average
Dog
" In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe. "
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Someone
Feel
" There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful. "
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Always
Women
Need
" My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. "
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Late-Night
New
Old
" If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' "
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Room
Write
Lean
" If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses. "
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Uncle
Progress
Mother
" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "
Nell Scovell
Admirer
Davis
" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "
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Brown
Working
Murphy
" Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection. "
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Positive
Someone
Connection
" An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians. "
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Politicians
Appearance
Real
" 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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Destruction
Long
Tough
" You want a diverse writers' room, not because it's the fair thing to do or the right thing to do, but because it's the best thing to do for your show. I've seen that to be true. "
Nell Scovell
Best
Be True
True
" Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits. "
Nell Scovell
New
New York
Content
" 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. "
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Focus
Like
Work
" The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked. "
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You
Woman
Successful
" When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does. "
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Nervous
You
Help
" Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early '90s, went mainstream in the mid-'90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997. "
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Vogue
Late
Back
" You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do. "
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You
Bad
Doing
" Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing. "
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Constant
Exercise
Keep
" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "
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Behavior
Keep
Bad
" I turned 40, and things started to go south. "
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South
Go
Turned
" I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person. "
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Than
Person
I Think
" Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see. "
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Writing
Start
" Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense. "
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City
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First