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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"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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"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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"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."
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"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking."
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"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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"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
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"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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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
People

"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."
Happiness

"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."
Change

"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."
Leadership

"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."
Fight

"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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