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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.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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 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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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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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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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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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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 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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