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Norman Lear Quotes

American - Producer | July 27, 1922 -

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 Good Time Having A Good Time

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.

Life Happiness Small You Mean Big

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Violence Repetition Country Excess

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.

Community Great Money Living Things

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

Heart Wise People American May Very

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.

Good Strong Think Long You Say

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Leadership Responsibility Think Where

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.

Heart People Think American Who

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.

People Me Doing You Back Down

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

Want Air Curtain Interrupted

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.

Beginning End Play Three Way Years

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.

Good Father Good Times Black Out

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