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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 guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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 wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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 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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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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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 never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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