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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Television Producer
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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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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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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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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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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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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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