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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.
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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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 don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
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I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, Does television lead, or does it follow? You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.
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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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 was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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When something is over, it is over.
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