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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
— James M. Barrie
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
— Paddy Chayefsky
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.
— Susan Sontag
I keep my head up. I'm comfortable in my skin. I want to see progression in life, with myself and with others around me.
— Shameik Moore
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
Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
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
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
— Paddy Chayefsky
We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.
— Billy Graham
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'm not interested in meeting management today ... I'm more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.
— Bruce Berkowitz
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
— Paddy Chayefsky
Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik)As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
— Seneca The Younger
You should live your life in such a way as to intentionally invest every minute of it.
— Sunday Adelaja
You're not such a dog as you think you are.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!
— Paddy Chayefsky