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“I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.”

Quote by Rod Serling

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Rod Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, producer, and television pioneer best known for creating the iconic anthology series The Twilight Zone. Born in Syracuse, New York, he served in the U.S. Army's 11th Airborne Division during World War II, an experience that deeply influenced his writing. After the war, he studied at Antioch College and began his career in television. Serling's work often explored social issues, human nature, and morality through science fiction and fantasy. He won six Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. His legacy includes The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, and numerous teleplays. He died of a heart attack in 1975, but his influence on television storytelling remains profound. more

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“It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.”

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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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“Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.”

Ifs Giving Views Like You Negative Scripts Producers Damn Dwarfs Dwarves Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn Damn You

Author:Rod Serling

“If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.”

Author:Rod Serling

“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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Author:Rod Serling

“I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“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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Author:Rod Serling

“If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.”

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Author:Rod Serling