Quotes by Elizabeth Meriwether - Page 1

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Box
Interested
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If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Mischievous
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Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Health
Annoying
British
Health Care
Good Free People
Tv
British People
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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 / Playwright
Changed
Heard
Cookie
Lie
Freaked
Monster
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There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Outnumbered
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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 / Playwright
Wanting
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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 / Playwright
Happening
Minute
Tv Show
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I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
To Love
Tv Show
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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 / Playwright
Ran
Reporter
Jerks
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I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Valentine
Home
Valentine's Day
Cry
Holiday
Thinking
Valentines Day
Stay
Maybe
Relationships
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But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Importance
Nights
Improv
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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 / Playwright
All Night
Danced
Fair
Lady
Unbridled
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I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
People True Know
Grasp
Runs
Tv Show
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Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Start Always Me
Appeal
Builds
Always Me Start
Dysfunctional
Me Start Always
Sketches
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Female
Female Characters
Honesty
Male
Funniest
Representative
Tendency
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Blues
Blues Brothers
Brothers
Mission
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What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Different Kinds
Female
Right Way
Wrong Way
Friendships
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Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Downtown
Please
Love God Hope
Charles
Wait
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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 / Playwright
Bowls
Compelling
Romance
Love Time Me
Watched
Cheers
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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 / Playwright
Different Ways
Reactions
Bare
Emotions
Laid
Sitcoms
Striking
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I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
New York
Streets
Subway
Morning Myself Me
Walk
Sing
York
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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 / Playwright
Deeper
Digging
Exciting
Exciting Things
Something New
Time Work Long
Work Time Long
Really Long Time
Tv Show
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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 / Playwright
Different Things
Instinct
Scene
Thrown
Tone
Challenge
Definitely
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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 / Playwright
Assignments
Latter
Papers
Unique
I Am Day People
Day I Am People
Due
Master
Figured
Master Plan
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I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.
Elizabeth Meriwether / Playwright
Definitions
Labels
Texting
Apart
Comedies
Relationships
Romantic Comedies
Wondering
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