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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Anything
Wells
Medium
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Rare
Humor
Television
Technology
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
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When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
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With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.
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The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
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