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Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.
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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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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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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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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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 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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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 movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
Norman Lear
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 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.
Norman Lear
My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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