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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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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 never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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 was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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.
Norman Lear
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.
Norman Lear
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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 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.
Norman Lear
I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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