Fred Allen Quotes
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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There's no question that looking down to search the Web, send a text message, or log onto Facebook puts you in danger and puts people around you on the road in danger.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path
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With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
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I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
