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I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

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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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
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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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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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Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.
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I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'
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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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Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
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I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
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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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