Ted Allen Quotes
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
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After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that my generation and those younger had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one.
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The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
