Allen Funt Quotes
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
