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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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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country."
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"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
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"And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country."
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"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
People
"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
Sex
"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
Experience
"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
People
"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
"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
"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
"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."
Business
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
Business
"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
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