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I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

George Meyer

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George Meyer
Age: 54
Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pennsylvania
United States
George A. Meyer
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Pessimist
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Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
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To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.
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Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
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You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
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I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
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I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.
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There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.
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I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.
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Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.
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I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
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I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
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I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
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I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.
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Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.
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I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.
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I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
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I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.
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I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
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