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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

We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity. — Paddy Chayefsky

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

You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing. — Sara Gilbert

Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue? — Meg Cabot

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

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television. — Hal Holbrook

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