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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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.
Norman Lear
I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.
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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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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.
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When something is over, it is over.
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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.
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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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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.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
Norman Lear
Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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