Fred Allen Quotes
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
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It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
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Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.
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No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.
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I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.
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If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
