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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
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Norman Milton Lear
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
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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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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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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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When something is over, it is over.
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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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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, Does television lead, or does it follow? You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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.
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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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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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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
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