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... 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 LearLife 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 LearI like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.
Norman LearWhen 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