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Norman Lear Quotes & Sayings
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29 entries tagged including 5 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
Norman Lear Topics
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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
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
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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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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 are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
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TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
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The trafficking of s.. and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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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.
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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.
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It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
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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.
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