"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."

-- Fred Allen

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“Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration”
“Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.”
“What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.”
“In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!”
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.”
“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”
“You don't know your ***** from a hole in the ground, you know that?”

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