"Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish……" — Rod Serling
"Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it."
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56 Quotes by Rod Serling
Rod Serling has 56 quotes on this site.
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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you…
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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
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According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to…
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Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
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The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must…
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Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
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How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with…
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I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
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You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a…
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When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being.…
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But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our…
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The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he…
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short…
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment…
— Unknown Author
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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and…
— Barbara Oakley
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When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our…
— Elizabeth I
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
— Martin Gardner
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I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.
— Deepika Padukone
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Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.
— Courtney Thorne Smith
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