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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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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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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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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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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The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
