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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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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
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"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."
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"It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one."
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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."
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"I write, but I also act."
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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."
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"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."
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"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
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"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
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"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
Business

"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."
Father

"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."
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"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."
Money

"In this nation, leadership is dollars."
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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."
People
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