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" You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do. "
Nell Scovell
You
Bad
Doing
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" In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment. "
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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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" For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it. "
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" The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture. "
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" 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. "
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" Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown. "
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" In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits. "
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Art
Opening
Los Angeles
" The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. "
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Behavior
Keep
Bad
" For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment. "
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Had
Always
Been
" 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. "
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Coming
Human
Life
" 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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Motherhood
You
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" Give me a rock, and I will roll it. "
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Me
Give
Give Me
" 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
" Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits. "
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New
New York
Content
" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "
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Brown
Working
Murphy
" I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years. "
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Been
Years
Out
" 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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Everyone
Search
Our
" One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean. "
Nell Scovell
Things
Mean
Think
" 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. "
Nell Scovell
Power
Run
She
" Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money. "
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More
Sense
Money
" I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad. "
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News
Bad
Good News
" I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person. "
Nell Scovell
Than
Person
I Think
" 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. "
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Fart
Fear
Scarf
" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "
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Got
Blondes
Both
" 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.' "
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Create
Wait
Rich
" By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.' "
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The Simpsons
Written
Up
" 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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Early
Feel
Writing
" 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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Decade
Career
First
" 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
" 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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Vogue
Late
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