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" Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice. "
Nell Scovell
Nice
Hollywood
Way
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean. "
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" 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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Start
" 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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" There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it. "
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Door
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Think
" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "
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" In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment. "
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Working
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" The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies. "
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World
Process
Up
" My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. "
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Late-Night
New
Old
" 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
Beautiful
Short
" Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense. "
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Behavior
People
Past
" I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad. "
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News
Bad
Good News
" Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims. "
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Fall
Hidden
Sight
" It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply. "
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Reply
Busy
Clients
" Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it. "
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Game
Imitation
Man
" I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent. "
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Happy
Just
" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "
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" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "
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" One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you. "
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Great
" The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.' "
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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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" I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers. "
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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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Wonder
Boon
" Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors. "
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Center
Get
You
" Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most. "
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Training
Need
Most
" 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
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