Fred Allen Quotes
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
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You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.
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For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.
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What's up with the racewalkers? I mean I respect them as athletes but come on... a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest.
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When I tell him that Im falling in loveWhy does he say'Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry'?
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
