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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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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 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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In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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 don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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