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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
Actor
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.
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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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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
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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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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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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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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The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.
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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 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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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 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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