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" When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does. "

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" 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

Work

" 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

" By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.' "

Nell Scovell

The Simpsons

Written

" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "

" Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew. "

" In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment. "

" I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most. "

" 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. "

" I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent. "

" 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. "

" Give me a rock, and I will roll it. "

Nell Scovell

Give

Give Me

" Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear. "

" Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown. "

" I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "

Nell Scovell

Admirer

Davis

" Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it. "

" One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you. "

" Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors. "

" I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me. "

Nell Scovell

Night

Job

" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "

" My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. "

" The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.' "

" I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience. "