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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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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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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
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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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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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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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We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.
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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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 movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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When something is over, it is over.
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