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I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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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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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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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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 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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When something is over, it is over.
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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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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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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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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