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Life is about having a good time.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
Businessperson
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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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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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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.
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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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