"When we went on the air, I didn't……" — Norman Lear

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

— Norman Lear

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34 Quotes by Norman Lear

Norman Lear has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you…
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where…
That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the…
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you…
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240,…
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to…
Success is how you collect your minutes.
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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