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Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

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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
Talent
Comedy
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Else
Someone
Around
Long
Sullivan
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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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The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
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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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When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
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Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
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Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.
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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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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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