"If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page."

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Source : "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

Thomas Lennon

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
“Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.”
“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “The Last Landscape”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.”
“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933...Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”
“The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.”
“As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.”
“One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics”

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