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One of the producers speaking to Andy Griffith about Andy not wanting to create his own TV show because of how everyone was acting on the Danny Thomas show, "Andy, you have to understand that Danny likes to yell, so we all yell.  If you don't want to yell then don't yell and we won't yell."

The other night, I was watching a PBS show called Pioneers of Television.  Andy Griffith was telling about how he almost didn't go into the television business because of the chaos Danny Thomas created and this quote hit me somewhere deep inside (Andy Griffith first appeared on the Danny Thomas Show "Make Room for Daddy" and the Andy Griffith Show was a spin off of that show).  Yes, my family yells -- we tend to fly off the handle, a little too fast, and a little too easily.  Yelling is something I have always grown up with (hot Hispanic blood); not that I liked it, so I am constantly trying to change but it is tough when that is all you know.  Dh grew up with 6 brothers and sisters and you had to yell just to get noticed so it comes natural to him too LOL.  That's where this quote was just so profound for me -- "If you don't want to yell then don't yell .... and nobody will yell (said in a hushed whisper, almost like a secret LOL).  Well, DUH!  It is funny where and when G-d speaks to you.  Maybe G-d needs to yell at me sometimes LOL

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