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" If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' "
Nell Scovell
Room
Write
Lean
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" 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
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Successful
" 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
" 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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You
Mother
" 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
" Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew. "
Nell Scovell
Destruction
Long
Tough
" I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz. "
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Dead
Small
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
Half
Comedy
Best
" In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we're not consistent. Sometimes we're brave, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down. "
Nell Scovell
Life
Down
Look
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
Door
People
Think
" Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money. "
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More
Sense
Money
" Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation. "
Nell Scovell
Everyone
Search
Our
" Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human. "
Nell Scovell
Coming
Human
Life
" For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment. "
Nell Scovell
Had
Always
Been
" There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle. "
Nell Scovell
Great
Mind
Two
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
Darkest
Two
Princess
" Give me a rock, and I will roll it. "
Nell Scovell
Me
Give
Give Me
" Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear. "
Nell Scovell
Fear
Inspire
Stumble
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
World
Process
Up
" To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow. "
Nell Scovell
Man
Powerful
Be Happy
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
Reply
Busy
Clients
" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "
Nell Scovell
I Think
Empathy
Comedy
" 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
" Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.' "
Nell Scovell
Civilization
War
Politics
" Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives. "
Nell Scovell
Fart
Fear
Scarf
" 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
" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "
Nell Scovell
Got
Blondes
Both
" I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person. "
Nell Scovell
Than
Person
I Think
" Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do. "
Nell Scovell
Not Knowing
Doing
Knew
" Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing. "
Nell Scovell
Constant
Exercise
Keep
" People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy. "
Nell Scovell
People
Dressed
You