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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
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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Laziest
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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 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 wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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Life is about having a good time.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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