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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Producer
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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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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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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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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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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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 trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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