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" In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact. "
Nell Scovell
Feeling
You
Yourself
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" Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation. "
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" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do. "
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" I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in. "
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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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" If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' "
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" An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.' "
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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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" 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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" I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me. "
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" 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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" Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice. "
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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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Politicians
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" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "
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" At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes. "
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" Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech. "
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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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" Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power. "
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" I turned 40, and things started to go south. "
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