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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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Amber Hurdle

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

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Amber Hurdle

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."

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Amber Hurdle

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."

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Amber Hurdle

"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking."

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Amber Hurdle

"So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."

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Amber Hurdle

"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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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
"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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Norman Lear
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."

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Norman Lear
"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."

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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
"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

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

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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
"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
"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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