Dave Allen Quotes
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.
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We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
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Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
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I consider myself a troll at heart. Making people bristle, being a little outrageous in order to add some spice to life—I get that. I’ve done that
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'
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I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.
