Allan Sherman Quotes

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Allan Sherman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1924 - November 20, 1973

Topics

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My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

John Lasseter

FatherBadSaidNeverEverything

'Blithe Spirit' is played almost all over Britain somewhere at all times because it is such a unique and ridiculously funny show. But it's also, in fact, under those layers of humor, a very serious show. It's quite misogynistic.

Angela Lansbury

FunnyHumorUniqueSeriousSpirit

I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had decided it all comes down to one single issue: campaign-finance elimination.

Steven Van Zandt

PoliticsDeepEndDownSingleWell

When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.

Michel Hazanavicius

TimeJobSoulLongYouEmotions

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

Moby

TruthMeBlameHairTruth IsRobbed

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

Donald Hall

WifeDriveFirstThroughLeft

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

Donald McCaig

FamilyGodSpeakKnowNothingWhere

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

Condoleezza Rice

BelieveBodyStudentAchievingRace

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

Brad Thor

GoodMoneySomeoneDoingWorthDown

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

Bryan Fuller

HomeCookingMeYouGoWill

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Anne McCaffrey

LiveMindProblemsAliveLivingUs

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

William Standish Knowles

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