Fred Allen Quotes
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
