Latest Merrill Markoe Quotes from Interviews

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• I care about being creative and productive.

  Merrill Markoe

  Creative, Care, Productive

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Two, Males

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

  Merrill Markoe

  Work Out, Goal, Alive

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Celebrity Gossip, Culture, Care

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Television, Unions

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

  Merrill Markoe

  Self, Awareness, Transparency

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.

  Merrill Markoe

  Grateful, Way, Fortunate

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

  Merrill Markoe

  People, Phrases, Incredibles

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Elements

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

  Merrill Markoe

  Echoes, Childhood, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

  Merrill Markoe

  Past, People, Behavior

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

  Merrill Markoe

  Might, Lists, Truth Is

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

  Merrill Markoe

  Tasks, Earth, Belief

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.

  Merrill Markoe

  Anxiety, Creative, Growth

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

• When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

  Merrill Markoe

  Writing, Years, Effort

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.