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Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (the other three-time winners, Francis Ford Coppola, Charles Brackett, Woody Allen, and Billy Wilder, have all shared their awards with co-writers).

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Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Americans, Boredom, Drama, Good, Killed, Want

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

Art, Days, Good Day, Thinking, Writing

Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.

Boredom, Football, Player, Players, Storytellers, Tamers

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

Fear, Hair, Lady, Mirrors, Old, Waiting

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Broken, Morally, People, Promise, Right

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

Beale, Business, Life, Natural, Order, Today

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Censorship, Kind, Mind, Typewriter, Typewriters

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

Accident, Brother, Guy, Pain, Real

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Art, Artists, Talk, Thinking, Writing, Young

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Faces, Fact, Facts, Men, Women

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings

Firsts, Known, Men, Ratings, Stories, Story

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Dog, Men, Think, Thinking

Television will do anything for a rating. . . anything!

Rating, Television

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived. . . and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

Cure, Cures, Entity, Established, Medical, People

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

Noble, Peace, War, Widows

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Age, Enlightenment, Half, Pass, Profit

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. . . There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

America, College, Corporations, Democracy, Dupont, Ideologies

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Great Writers, Rewriter, Writer, Writing

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Democracy, Political, Style, Television, Ugliest

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Human, Human Beings, Humans, Life, Value, Values

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