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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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
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When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
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If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.
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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.
