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

— Norman Lear

#laughs #looking #originally #shows #went

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#comes #demand #ratings #sex #trafficking

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. ↗

— Norman Lear

#giant #international #never #pay #people

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. ↗

— Norman Lear

#article #being #black #came #did

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me! ↗

— Denis Leary

#bullets #country #eight #explain #her

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#biggest #camera #come #forget #i

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. ↗

— Denis Leary

#get #guaranteed #laid #middle #revolution

Politics is largely a matter of heart. ↗

— R. A. Butler

#largely #matter #politics

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#decreased #effects #enhanced #forget #i