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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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On ships they call them barnacles in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
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Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.
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A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
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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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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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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
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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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