Fred Allen Quotes
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.
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I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
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Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers...
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
