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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
Humor
Talent
Comedy
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Else
Someone
Around
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Sullivan

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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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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people.
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Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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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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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
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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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