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1. "Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs." ~ Norman Lear

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

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

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

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

6. "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." ~ Norman Lear

7. "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." ~ Norman Lear

8. "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." ~ Norman Lear

9. "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." ~ Norman Lear

10. "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." ~ Norman Lear

11. "So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care." ~ Norman Lear

12. "There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end." ~ Norman Lear

13. "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." ~ Norman Lear

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

15. "I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it." ~ Norman Lear

16. "In this nation, leadership is dollars." ~ Norman Lear

17. "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." ~ Norman Lear

18. "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." ~ Norman Lear

19. "Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan." ~ Norman Lear

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