Norman Lear Quotes - Page 2

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• My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Meat, Necks

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• There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

  Norman Lear

  Real, People, Ends

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

  Norman Lear

  Kids, White, Used

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

  Norman Lear

  Years, Plus, Multitudes

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

  Norman Lear

  Father, Black, Males

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

  Norman Lear

  Writing, Los Angeles, Partners

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  California, People, Facts

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• In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

  Norman Lear

  War, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Timing, Enough

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Order, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Too Much, Hell

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• As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, People, Underestimate

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Average, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Phrases, My Favorite

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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'.

  Norman Lear

  New York, Stars, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

  Norman Lear

  Idols, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Responsibility, America, Would Be

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Good Times, Life Is, Cases

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

  Norman Lear

  People, Giants, Salary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• America is a country of excess.

  Norman Lear

  Country, America, Excess

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Caring, Average, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

  Norman Lear

  Writing, Television, Comedy

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• Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

  Norman Lear

  Men, Directors, Bud

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

  Norman Lear

  Bob, Wells, Wanted

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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