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Norman Lear

"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."

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"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."

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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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"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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"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
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"In this nation, leadership is dollars."
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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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"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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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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