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Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Fred Allen
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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
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The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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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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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 human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people.
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He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
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Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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