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But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Community
Constantly
Everything
Going
Importance
Improv
Learned
Nights
Play
Readings
Theater
Working
Yes
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Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Always
Appeal
Builds
Characters
Dysfunctional
Exactly
How
Know
Little
Me
Relationships
Sketches
Start
Started
Then
Writing
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Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
About
Characters
Day
Deeper
Develop
Digging
Every
Every Day
Exciting
Exciting Things
I Think
Just
Keep
Learn
Like
Long
Long Time
Most
New
Novel
Really
Really Long Time
Show
Something
Something New
Things
Think
Time
TV
TV Show
Week
Work
Writer
You
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Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
After
Am
Assignments
Day
Due
Every
Everything
Figured
Get
High
High School
I Am
Just
Latter
Like
Master
Master Plan
Out
Papers
People
Plan
School
Second
Show
Shows
Some
Some People
Things
Unique
Way
Write
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I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Anyone
Ever
Grasp
Know
Maybe
People
Running
Runs
Say
Show
Think
True
TV
TV Show
Who
Would
You
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I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Along
Around
Come
Gonna
Had
Hated
Job
Just
Kind
Like
Make
Me
Morning
Myself
New
New York
Out
People
She
Sing
Streets
Subway
Walk
Would
York
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Blues
Blues Brothers
Brothers
Characters
Complicated
Film
I Think
Interesting
Just
Keep
Like
Mission
People
Roles
Theater
Think
TV
Want
Who
Women
Writing
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I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Bit
Bowls
Cheers
Comedy
Compelling
Every
Every Time
First
Getting
Girl
Growing
Growing Up
I Love
I See
Just
Love
Me
New
Over
Performance
Ready
Romance
Season
See
Time
Up
Watch
Watched
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I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
All Night
Because
Could
Danced
Expression
Fair
I Love
Joy
Kid
Lady
Love
Much
Night
Song
Watching
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I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Actor
Actor
Control
Give
I Love
Like
Lose
Love
Much
Out
Possible
Really
Started
Stuff
Wanting
Where
Writing
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I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Apart
Comedies
Day
Definitions
Ends
Experience
Falls
Feel
Going
I Feel
I Feel Like
I Think
Just
Kiss
Labels
Like
Lot
Maybe
Modern
Modern-Day
My Own
Own
Relationships
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Sort
Starts
Texting
Then
Think
Together
Wondering
You
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Around
Challenge
Character
Communicating
Definitely
Different
Different Things
Feel
Hundred
I Think
Instinct
Lot
Mean
Much
Other
People
Put
Scene
Things
Think
Thrown
Tone
Which
Word
Words
Writing
You
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I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Because
Create
Cry
Day
Feel
Holiday
Home
I Feel
I Feel Like
I Think
Like
Maybe
Relationships
Should
Stay
Think
Valentine
Valentine's Day
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I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Characters
Could
How
I Think
Know
Love
Possibly
Show
Think
To Love
TV
TV Show
Where
Write
You
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I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Changed
Cookie
Freaked
Going
Heard
Lie
Monster
Out
Really
Turned
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If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Feeling
Going
Great
Know
Mischievous
Something
Then
Writing
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If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Entertainment
Every
Hollywood
Issue
Jerks
Men
Ran
Reporter
Something
Those
Women
Would
Write
Year
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It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Actor
Because
Coming
Find
Happening
Hard
Know
Last
Last-Minute
Minute
Out
Show
Sort
TV
TV Show
Very
You
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People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Box
Everything
How
Interested
Once
People
Put
Want
Women
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Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Because
Call
Charles
Downtown
Experience
God
Hope
Keep
Love
Making
Me
Next
Over
Play
Plays
Please
Stick
Television
Tell
Theater
Wait
Weird
Writing
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