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Norman Lear Quotes
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. - Norman Lear Quotes
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. Theyre all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. - Norman Lear Quotes
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. - Norman Lear Quotes
Even when they dont know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. - Norman Lear Quotes
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. - Norman Lear Quotes
I elected to do All In The Family instead, because of my feelings for the characters, as a result of growing up with my own dad. - Norman Lear Quotes
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand theres a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. - Norman Lear Quotes
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I wont hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, Ive gotta look at it. - Norman Lear Quotes
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. - Norman Lear Quotes
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldnt get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. - Norman Lear Quotes
Im hearing all the time from young people who are watching The Jeffersons or Good Times or All In The Family. So those shows are working for them. - Norman Lear Quotes
In the area were discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. - Norman Lear Quotes
In this nation, leadership is dollars. - Norman Lear Quotes
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed. - Norman Lear Quotes
Life goes on pretty much the same way. Ive been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show. - Norman Lear Quotes
Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case. - Norman Lear Quotes
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. - Norman Lear Quotes
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you cant change peoples minds, but you can get them to think. - Norman Lear Quotes
My family argued at the top of their lungs and on the edge of their nerves, forever. Thats what they did, so that was my experience. - Norman Lear Quotes
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan. - Norman Lear Quotes
Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs. - Norman Lear Quotes
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care. - Norman Lear Quotes
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. - Norman Lear Quotes
Thats the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people. - Norman Lear Quotes
The American people may not be the best-educated, but theyre very wise at heart. - Norman Lear Quotes
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. - Norman Lear Quotes
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. - Norman Lear Quotes
We are a country of excess. So its not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. - Norman Lear Quotes
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension. - Norman Lear Quotes
We got ratings. It isnt that they wont quarrel with you, or say youre always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and youre reasonable - I dont think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. - Norman Lear Quotes
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