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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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When something is over, it is over.
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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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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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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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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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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If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.
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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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I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
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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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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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