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" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "
Nell Scovell
Behavior
Keep
Bad
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" People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy. "
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" Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong. "
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" For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment. "
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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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" 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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" I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape. "
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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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" Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it. "
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" 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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" Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing. "
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" I'm both an insider and an outsider. "
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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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Writing
" 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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" 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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" To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow. "
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" 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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Group
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Small
" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "
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" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most. "
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" I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment. "
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