Norman Lear

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.

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.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.