Allen Klein Quotes
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
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Jellies are to cold cookery what consommes and stock are to hot. If anything, the former are perhaps more important: for a cold entree - however perfect it may be in itself - is nothing without its accompanying jelly.
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Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.
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I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.
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