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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times."
"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 that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
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