Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
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I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did 'Spamalot.'
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Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
