Nell Scovell Quotes
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
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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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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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I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
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My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
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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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Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.
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Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
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Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
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If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'
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For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
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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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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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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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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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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
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The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.