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Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

1923–1981 United States

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (29 January 1923 – 1 August 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays.

United States
Novelists
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Screenwriters

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22 quotes

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Network (1976)

I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

Network (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paddy Chayefsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.