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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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New Haven
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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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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