Fred Allen Quotes
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.
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Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
