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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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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

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Donna Grant

"It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different."

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Donna Grant

"When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing."

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Donna Grant

"There will always be a father."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

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Donna Grant

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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Donna Grant

"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."

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Norman Lear
"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

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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."

Business

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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
"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."

News

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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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Norman Lear
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."

Life

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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
"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."

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Norman Lear
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."

Marriage

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