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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
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Norman Milton Lear
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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