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I'm a recovering optimist.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Optimist
Recovering
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Truth
Bitter
Bitter Truth
Bitterness
Jokes
States
State
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One does not have humor. It has you.
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Your style is formed by what you can't do.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Funny
Television
Weapons
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Inspirational
Humor
Laughter
Sense Of Humor
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Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
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Causes
Chiefs
Divorce
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We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Born
Equal
May
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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Science
Technology
Died
Television
Vaudeville
Box
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If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
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Alive
Musical
Towns
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The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
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Age
Hollywood
Way
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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Audience
Television
Today
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The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
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Nature
Amazon
Burning
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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
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Honest
Real
Television
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Belief
Firsts
Legs
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You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Make Happy
Ridiculous
Writing
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Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Funny
Divorce
Witty
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I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Art
College
People
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I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
People
Thinking
Wind
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The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
Home
Differences
Example
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I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.
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Mean
Stars
Thinking
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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.
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Imagination
Exercise
Thinking
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I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
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Numbers
Thinking
Writing
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I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.
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Compassion
Information
Opinion
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I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
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Easy
Refuse
Writing
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I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
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Technology
Mean
Thinking
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A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.
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New York
War
Rain
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
Larry Gelbart / Television Writer
California
Southern
Writing
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I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
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Play
Two
Writing
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