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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.
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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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I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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When something is over, it is over.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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