Fred Allen Quotes
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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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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It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
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It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
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I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
