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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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
