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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
Writer
Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
Taboo
Infinitely
Television
Taboos

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If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
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Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
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The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.
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Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
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Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
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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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If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
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Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.
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for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
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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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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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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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I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.
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Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.
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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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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
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If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
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