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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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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 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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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When something is over, it is over.
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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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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