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Ted Allen Quotes

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 20, 1965

Topics

Waiting You Too Much Thanksgiving

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Business Truth Small You Leverage

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.

Youth Theatre Doing Dancing Playing

I never turned down a fight in my life.

Life Fight My Life Down Never

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

Memory Think Long You Done Kind

The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it in my coat. And I think it was 'Cry Baby' by The Bonnie Sisters. That or 'Lucille' by Little Richard.

Mother Baby Think Back Cry She

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Heart People Book Potential Fierce

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

Skitch Henderson

House Hollywood Orchestra Big Demise

I got a motorbike at three; we've still got it. It was an R50. Hopefully my little nephews will play on it.

Play Three Will Nephews Little Got

It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.

Time Smart Remember Back Cheap Hard

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Imagination Mine Autonomous

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Christopher Walken

Parents People Speak Think Rhythm

The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

Christine Todd Whitman

Wisdom Year Election Done Nothing

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