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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.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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 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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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Life is about having a good time.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.
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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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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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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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When something is over, it is over.
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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.
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The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.
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I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
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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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