I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

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About Fred Allen

Portrait of Fred Allen

John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

—Aaron McGruder

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.

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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

—Peter Ustinov

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How do you make a million? You start with $900,000.

—Stephen Lewis

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

—Hobart Brown

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