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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. "
Nell Scovell
Man
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" When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer. "
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" Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors. "
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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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" I turned 40, and things started to go south. "
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" In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact. "
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" Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry. "
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" If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven. "
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" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "
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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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" 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'm both an insider and an outsider. "
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" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "
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" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "
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" 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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