Ted Allen Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
