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Paddy Chayefsky

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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!


— Paddy Chayefsky


#apathy #frustration #anger

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#broken #get #god #half #morally

I'm a man without a corporation.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#i #man #without

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#bloodiest #day #first #generals #hell

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#anything #art #artists #i #say

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#british #enlightenment #half #off #own

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#death #hero #his #man #send

Television is democracy at its ugliest.


— Paddy Chayefsky


#democracy #television #ugliest






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He wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film but he is credited by his real first and middle name Sidney Aaron because of disputes with director Ken Russell. Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29 1923 – August 1 1981) was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist. Filmography
The True Glory (1945) uncredited with Garson Kanin
As Young as You Feel (1955) with Lamar Trotti
Marty (1955)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Bachelor Party (1957)
The Goddess (1958)
Middle of the Night (1959)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Paint Your Wagon (with Alan Jay Lerner) (1969)
The Hospital (1971)
Network (1976)
Altered States (1980)
The Habakkuk Conspiracy (1983)


Television and stage plays
Television (selection)
1950-55 Danger
1951-52 Manhunt
1951-60 Goodyear Playhouse
1952-54 Philco Television Playhouse
1952 Holiday Song
1952 The Reluctant Citizen
1953 Printer's Measure
1953 Marty
1953 The Big Deal
1953 The Bachelor Party
1953 The Sixth Year
1953 Catch My Boy On Sunday
1954 The Mother
1954 Middle of the Night
1955 The Catered Affair
1956 The Great American Hoax
Stage
No T.

As a screenwriter he received three Academy Awards for Marty (1955) The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976). Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29 1923 – August 1 1981) was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist. No one else would have dreamed of doing it.

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