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Marti Noxon
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Writer
Nationality:
American
Born:
August 25
, 1964
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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
Marti Noxon
Words
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Problem
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Humanity
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Insults
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Deny
I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.
Marti Noxon
Proud
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Enough
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Think
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Pie
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Pretty
,
Just
Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.
Marti Noxon
Life
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Time
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Mom
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Parents
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Brother
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Penny
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
Marti Noxon
Control
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Interesting
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Early
,
Escape
I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
Marti Noxon
Vacation
,
Myself
,
Crazy
,
Think
,
Month
I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.
Marti Noxon
Love
,
Writing
,
Gray
,
Gray Area
,
Realized
It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.
Marti Noxon
Good
,
Story
,
Direction
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Always
,
Rowing
One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.
Marti Noxon
Good
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Progress
,
Good Things
,
You
,
Back
Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.
Marti Noxon
Beautiful
,
Service
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Commitment
,
People
It's funny: I've joked that 'Sharp Objects,' 'To the Bone,' and 'Dietland' are my self-harm trilogy, and each one is a different side of that triangle, with 'Dietland' really about fighting back.
Marti Noxon
Funny
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Fighting
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Back
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Different
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Sharp
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
Marti Noxon
People
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Trying
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Understand
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Intention
When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.
Marti Noxon
Darkness
,
You
,
Now
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Dream
,
More
,
Right
I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.
Marti Noxon
Experience
,
Me
,
Think
,
Interesting
,
Need
The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.
Marti Noxon
Happy
,
Status Quo
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Never
,
Become
,
Things
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