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Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

Rod Serling

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Rod Serling
Age: 50 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 25
Died: 1975
Died: June 28
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
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It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
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I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
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I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.
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Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.
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If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
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If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
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Seeing does not always believe.
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The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
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Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
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You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
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I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.
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Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
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I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.
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You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.
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I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
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I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.
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Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.
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