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Norman Lear

"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."

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"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part."

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"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."

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"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."

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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."

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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."

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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."

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"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."

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"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
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"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
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"That's 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."
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