Jeff Melvoin: "The law is not so much carved in..."

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Jeff Melvoin is an American television writer, producer, and educator. He has written dozens and produced hundreds of one-hour episodes on over a dozen television series.

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

—Jeff Melvoin

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

—Jeff Melvoin

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.

—Jeff Melvoin

Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me?

—Jeff Melvoin

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

—Jeff Melvoin

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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law… a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

—Henry Brougham

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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

—H. L. Mencken

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

—H. L. Mencken

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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

—Glaser and Way

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What power has law where only money rules.

—Gaius Petronius

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11 Jul 2015 Added

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

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