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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
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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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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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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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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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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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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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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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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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