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Norman Lear
 
Date of birth: 27 July 1922
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. "

Norman Lear
" 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
" 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. "

Norman Lear
" Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories. "

Norman Lear
" Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. "

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" Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. "

Norman Lear
" I don't know that you change minds, but you get them talking, and in the course of a longer conversation, longer than a 26-minute television show, somebody may change somebody else's mind. But the talking, the airing of it, is all to the good. "

Norman Lear
" I elected to do All In The Family instead, because of my feelings for the characters, as a result of growing up with my own dad. "

Norman Lear
" 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. "

Norman Lear
" 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. "

Norman Lear
" I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. "

Norman Lear
" I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. "

Norman Lear
" I'm hearing all the time from young people who are watching The Jeffersons or Good Times or All In The Family. So those shows are working for them. "

Norman Lear
" In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. "

Norman Lear
" In this nation, leadership is dollars. "

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