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Norman Lear

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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


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


— Norman Lear


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


— Norman Lear


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Early life
Lear was born in New Haven Connecticut the son of Jeanette (née Seicol) and Herman Lear who worked in sales. The Lear organization was one of the most successful independent TV producers of the 1970s. Communications (T.

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family Sanford and Son One Day at a Time The Jeffersons Good Times and Maude. As a political activist he founded the advocacy organization People For the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.

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