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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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Donna Grant

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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Donna Grant

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

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Donna Grant

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

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Donna Grant

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

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Donna Grant

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

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Donna Grant

"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."

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Donna Grant

"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."

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Donna Grant

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

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Donna Grant

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

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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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Norman Lear
"Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play."

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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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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
"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."

Father

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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."

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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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