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Norman Lear

"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."

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Donna Grant

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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Donna Grant

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

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Donna Grant

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

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Donna Grant

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

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Donna Grant

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story."

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Donna Grant

"I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her."

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Donna Grant

"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."

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Donna Grant

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

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Donna Grant

"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."

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Norman Lear
"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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Norman Lear
"In this nation, leadership is dollars."

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Norman Lear
"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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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."

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Norman Lear
"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."

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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"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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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"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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