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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.

~Norman Lear

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

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

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

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: July 27th, 1922

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