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We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.
— Marcellin Berthelot
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.
— Tony Romo
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
— Anthony Hopkins
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
— Paddy Chayefsky
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
— Henri Poincare
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
— Paddy Chayefsky
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
— Rabindranath Tagore
But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful
— Mick Herron
Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.
— Mitch Albom
I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[ ... ]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value!
— Paddy Chayefsky
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
— Paddy Chayefsky
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I'm a man without a corporation.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.
— Charlie Cochet
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
— Paddy Chayefsky
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
— Paddy Chayefsky
A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.
— Kurt Schwitters
You're not such a dog as you think you are.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!
— Paddy Chayefsky