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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
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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Life is about having a good time.
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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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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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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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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 was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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When something is over, it is over.
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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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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 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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
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