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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
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New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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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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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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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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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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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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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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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 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 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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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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