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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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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 get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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