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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.

~Norman Lear

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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.

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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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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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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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Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

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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.

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In this nation, leadership is dollars.

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Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: July 27th, 1922

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