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Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
Writing
Television
New
Low
Raised
I don't squabble a lot, but everyone has a bad day.
Toby Emmerich
Day
Bad Day
Everyone
Bad
Lot
Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.
Troy Carter
Work
People
Simple
Difficult
About
Hustle
Like
Ideas
Talk
Doing
Lot
Actually
As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
Aaron Sorkin
You
World
Long
Other
Kind
Seem
Attainable
Foot
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Real
Going
The Real World
Real World
While
Keep
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
Aaron Sorkin
Me
World
Thought
First
Drama
Extraordinary
Further
Frankly
Drew
Properties
Network
Networking
Had
Device
Liked
Most
Because
Got
Courtroom
Intellectual
Antisocial
Person
Story
Social
Then
Created
Cool
Ever
I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
Aaron Sorkin
Time
Great
Watergate
Long
Country
Before
Think
Great Country
Would
Writer
Well
Very
America
Done
After
Then
Forties
Vietnam
Last
Last Time
When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
Aaron Sorkin
People
Writing
World
Unhappy
Will
Young
TV
TV Show
Kinds
Write
Writers
Combination
Empire
Builder
Staff
Experts
Scripts
Young Writers
Create
Show
Who
Two
Set
I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
Andy Cohen
Positive
Great
Happy
Big
Exactly
Directions
Generally
Felt
Always
Go
Continue
Just
Being
Where
Wanted
Things
I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.
Brian Grazer
People
Pleasure
Telling
Boss
Take
Like
Around
Motivated
Questions
Curiosity
Get
Manage
Any
Asking
Asking Questions
I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.
Bruce Nash
You
People
Trend
Think
Humiliating
Danger
Embarrassing
Disturbing
Ratings
Because
Get
Just
Being
Just Because
Mean
Might
Being Mean
It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.
Bruce Nash
You
Difficult
Joe
Bother
Ideas
Very
Get
Jane
Hollywood
Average
Agent
Your
I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
Carlton Cuse
Best
People
Ending
Assumption
Mind-Blowing
Finale
Say
Best Part
Somehow
Part
Idea
Implicit
Supposed
Make
Sort
Always
Question
Story
Episode
Show
Why
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Cecil B. DeMille
Creation
Without
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
Cecil B. DeMille
Me
You
Bible
Picture
Give
Give Me
Any
Pages
Two
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman
Life
Beautiful
Death
Fear
Most Beautiful
Adventure
Most
Why
I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.
Chris Carter
God
Religion
Science
Think
About
Angle
Than
Just
Different
Search
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.
Chris Carter
You
Trust
Lie
Believe
Everything
No-One
Deny
Them
Associate
Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.
Darren Star
You
Together
Creative
People
Ego
Side
Put
Tension
Stuff
Know
Camaraderie
Lot
Closeness
Certainly
Flip
Creative People
Play
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
David O. Selznick
Christmas
Worse
Worst
Sundays
Terrible
Than
Get
Holidays
Depressed
Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.
Dede Gardner
Dreams
Best
Money
Everyone
Hopes
Invest
Sort
Salary
Subjected
Any
Predatory
Where
Want
Wants
Lending
You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
Eric Fellner
Great
You
Car
Independent
Mercedes
Develop
Make
Deal
Sell
I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.
Gene Roddenberry
War
Army
Pilot
Our
Favor
Enterprise
Name
Particularly
Tide
Always
Proud
Been
Ship
Wanted
Story
Which
Midway
Turned
Really
Use
Fascinated
Whole
Navy
Bomber
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
Life
Man
Starts
Back
Meets
He
Head-On
Him
Wither
His
Happens
Either
Turns
Away
Lives
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
Gene Roddenberry
Beautiful
Man
Woman
Better
Beautiful Woman
Every
Our
Kirk
More
Better Man
Bed
Go
Infinitely
Wanted
Skill
Captain
Evening
Now
If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.
George Cukor
Were
Been
Very
Handsome
Maybe
Actor
Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you're 74 or if you are 24 because... 74 is the new 24!
Giorgio Moroder
Music
You
Money
Care
Dance
Live
Dance Music
New
Make
Because
How
How Much
How Much Money
Friends
Where
Much
Your
Who
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