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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
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
Kindest
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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 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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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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 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 was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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 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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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 is about having a good time.
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.
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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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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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