Fred Allen Quotes
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
Quotes to Explore
-
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
-
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
-
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
-
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
-
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
-
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
-
I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
-
I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
-
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
-
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
-
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
-
Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
-
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
-
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
-
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
-
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
-
Those who go along get along.
-
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-
I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
-
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
-
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
-
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
