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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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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
Television Writer
New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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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 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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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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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When something is over, it is over.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for 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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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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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