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America is a country of excess.
Norman Lear / Television Writer
America
Country
Excess
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Life is about having a good time.
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Good Times
Having A Good Time
Life Is
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When something is over, it is over.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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Leadership
Dollars
Nations
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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Success
Minutes
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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Kids
Dad
White
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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Dad
Meat
Necks
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In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.
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Multitudes
Plus
Years
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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Bob
Wanted
Wells
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Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
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Belly
Belly Laughs
Laughing
Shows
Laughs
Originally
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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Believe
Reason
Would Be
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Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'
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Kids
Used
White
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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Care
Causes
Issues
People
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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Chaplin
Mets
Wanted
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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Activity
Doubt
Partisanship
Doubts
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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Demand
Sex
Violence
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Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
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Nixon
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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May
People
Self
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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Citizens
Consumers
Thinking
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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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Air
Curtains
Interrupted
Want
Curtain
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The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
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Wise
Heart
May
People
American People
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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Directors
Producers
Rating
Writer
Director
Producer
Ratings
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I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
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Leadership
Greater
Morality
Motherhood
Responsibility
Thinking
Begins
Terms
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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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Lions
Wanted
Wizards
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Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'
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Next
Stars
Tvs
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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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Enough
Thinking
Timing
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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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Men
Bud
Directors
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I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
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Looks
Moments
Regret
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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Controversy
Ends
People
Real
Family Business People
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I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.
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Feeling Great
Feelings
Thinking
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I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.
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Morning
Get Up
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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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Constant
Country
Excess
Repetition
Violence
Per
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I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.
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Hell
Thinking
Too Much
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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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Said
Slogans
Tvs
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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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Corporations
Giants
International
People
Salary
Your People Will
Touch
People Will Your
Giant
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I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
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Comedy
Television
Writing
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Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.
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Corporations
Lasts
Needs
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I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
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My Favorite
Phrases
Thinking
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We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.
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Dean
Television
Together
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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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Agree
Agreement
People
Thinking
Change People Think
Archie
Bunker
Earlier
Maybe
Minds
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I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Partners
Writing
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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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Cases
Good Times
Having A Good Time
Life Is
Life Time Good
Did
Case
Good Time
Having
Well
Poorly
Some
Some Things
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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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Accidents
Looks
Terrible
Traffic
Gotta
Hang
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You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.
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Lakes
Levels
Rocks
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I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.
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New York
Stars
Writing
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When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'
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Kids
Race
White
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The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.
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Party
Thinking
Way
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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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Couple
Goes On
Life Goes On
Television
Television Show
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I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.
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America
People
Thinking
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