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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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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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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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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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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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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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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I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
