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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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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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Life is about having a good time.
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.
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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 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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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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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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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When something is over, it is over.
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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 think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
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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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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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