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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.
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The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.
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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.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, Does television lead, or does it follow? You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.
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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
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If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.
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We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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Life is about having a good time.
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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
Norman Lear
