Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
“Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.”
— Norman Lear · Nixon
The World Motivation
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
“Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.”
— Norman Lear · Nixon
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
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.
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
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.
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.