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Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter. Elizabeth Meriwether
Day People School Some People Master Every Everything Way Papers Latter Out High Some High School Write Like Master Plan Am Due Get Just After Plan Show Figured Unique Shows Assignments Things Second
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week. Elizabeth Meriwether
Work Time Day You Every Day Long Long Time Every Think Digging Characters TV TV Show About Something Something New Week Writer Develop Exciting Exciting Things New Like Most Learn Just Really Really Long Time Show Novel Keep Deeper Things
I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge. Elizabeth Meriwether
Character You People Writing Words Word Challenge Think Other Hundred Definitely Scene Thrown Put Feel Instinct Around Lot Different Which Mean Communicating Much Different Things Things Tone
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control. Elizabeth Meriwether
Love Writing Lose Control Out Possible Give Stuff Like Where Wanting Much Really Actor Started
I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy. Elizabeth Meriwether
Love Song Joy Danced Kid All Night Unbridled Could Fair Because Lady Much Expression Watching Night
The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways. Elizabeth Meriwether
Emotions Comedy Girl Other Everybody Striking Ways About Something More Feels New Like Reactions Sort Real Very Than Sitcoms Maybe Different Laid Much Bare Different Ways Thing
It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening. Elizabeth Meriwether
You Last-Minute Out TV Find TV Show Minute Know Sort Because Coming Very Happening Hard Show Actor Last
I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie. Elizabeth Meriwether
Lie Changed Monster Out Freaked Heard Going Turned Really Cookie
I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling. Elizabeth Meriwether
Love Time Me Comedy Girl First Every Every Time Bit See Performance Over New Bowls Cheers Ready Up Getting Just Romance Growing Growing Up Season Compelling Watch Watched
If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Elizabeth Meriwether
Entertainment Women Men Year Every Ran Those Would Something Write Issue Reporter Hollywood Jerks
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. Elizabeth Meriwether
Great Writing Feeling Something Mischievous Know Going Then
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck. Ellen McLaughlin
Success People Parents Luck Mentors Host Had Lot Friends Any Just Plain Teachers Whole
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. Ellen McLaughlin
Work Courage Own Playwright Drama Others Kind My Own Well Became Understand Smug Modern Lack Frustrated Interested Engaged Found Now Deeply Early Enlightened Amused Plays
I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter. Ellen McLaughlin
Life Matter My Life See Because Greatest Dealing Go Questions Want Theater Help Grappling Actor Things Need
I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much. Ellen McLaughlin
Playwright Earn Much Actor
Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants. Elmer Rice
Women Men Men And Women High Status Reduced Been Standing Professional
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all. Emma Donoghue
Work Beautiful Day Home World Will Weather Partner Lost Say Tend Beautiful Day Come Real The Real World Real World Notice Noticed
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!' Emma Donoghue
Me Eyes Every Think Those See Parent No-One Look Demon Child Where Moments
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. Emma Donoghue
Books Come Most Always Been Up Inclined
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world. Emma Donoghue
You Comforting World Sense Thinking Tooth Tooth Fairy Kids Lies See Magical Delight Part Make Fairy How Saints Form Whether Eternal Help
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene. Emma Donoghue
Chapter Out Plots Some Structure Scene Marvelous Writers Particular Know Without Going Happen Produce Planning Novel Each Need
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. Emma Donoghue
Success Failure Way Finding More Time-Consuming Than Success Is Ever
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it. Emma Donoghue
You Happy Unhappy Writer Said Lot Very Get Childhood Just Happy Childhood Meant Lets
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. Emma Donoghue
Success You Predict Aim Way Possibly Only Well Literary Cannot Your Thing
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have. Emma Donoghue
You Emotions Extreme Some Parent Most Normal Being Psychologically Produces Ever
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. Emma Donoghue
Situation Telling Memoir Most Always Authentic Gets Different Places Different Places Novel
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