Nell Scovell Quotes
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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.
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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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In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
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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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Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.
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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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Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
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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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I turned 40, and things started to go south.
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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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Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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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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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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The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.
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One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
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For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
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My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
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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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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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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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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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Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.