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Fred Allen Quotes

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956

Topics

Remember Trouble Three Remembering

I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.

Teacher Giving Person Boy Bright

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

People Think Know Leave Get Made

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

Day Feeling Will One Day Direct

I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.

Performance Create Write Make Books

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Poetry Literature You Early

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Robyn Hitchcock

Thirty Everyone Years Something Knew

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.

Research Appreciate Humanity Wonder

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

Grandmother Watching Up Watched Had

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Domhnall Gleeson

Work Father Better Getting Better He

Zendaya - she's a boss - and Rihanna as well. I feel like those are two very powerful women.

Women Boss Feel Powerful She Two

I'm nervous before all shows.

Nervous Before Shows

I may be a gadget freak, but let me tell you clearly, I'm not on Twitter.

Me You Clearly Freak Tell May

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