Norman Lear Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Looks, Traffic, Terrible

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

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• I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, White

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• What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

  Norman Lear

  Home, Kids, Weekend

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers...we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that we rode in on. That is my favorite recollection.

  Norman Lear

  Horse, Team, Numbers

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

  Norman Lear

  Wizards, Lions, Wanted

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me to say something. I said, "I'm grateful to everybody that participated, everybody that participated in my life that got me to this moment. And everything was dead-right because everything is right now."

  Norman Lear

  Children, Grateful, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Regret, Looks, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Two, African American, Green

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Humor, Men, Kind

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

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• The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.

  Norman Lear

  Running, Thoughtful, Long

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• The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

  Norman Lear

  People, Understanding, Use

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.

  Norman Lear

  Country, Sex, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Couple, Goes On, Television

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

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• You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Rating, Producers

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

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• Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

  Norman Lear

  Laughing, Shows, Belly Laughs

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

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• We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

  Norman Lear

  Country, Excess, Violence

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

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• ... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

  Norman Lear

  Party, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, Responsibility, Motherhood

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

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• Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

  Norman Lear

  Stars, Television, Tvs

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In this nation, leadership is dollars.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, Dollars, Nations

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

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• When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

  Norman Lear

  Air, Want, Curtains

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

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• As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

  Norman Lear

  Views, People, Matter

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'

  Norman Lear

  Kids, Race, White

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Bud, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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