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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Donna Grant

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Norman Lear
"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

People

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Norman Lear
"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."

Life

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Norman Lear
"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."

News

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Norman Lear
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

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Norman Lear
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."

Life

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Norman Lear
"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 there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."

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Norman Lear
"In the area we're 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."

Leadership

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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
"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."

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

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