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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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.
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I've always been told I have a giant placenta.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
