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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father started me singing in church."

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Amber Hurdle

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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Amber Hurdle

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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Amber Hurdle

"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

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Amber Hurdle

"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."

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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."

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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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