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

~Fred Allen

Topics: Enough Fly Fruit Heart Hollywood Place Producer Room Seeds Sincerity Still Take Three You

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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

~Fred Allen

Topics: California Fine Happen Live Orange Place You

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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Because Family Know Look Sap Tree Up

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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Anything Coffin Fit Own Want

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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Associate Guy Hollywood Only Producer Who Will

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Age Been Comedian Comedy Compelled Compete First First Time He Himself History Jokes Knows Living Machine Material Oblivion Supply Time Treadmill Whether

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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Bag Carbon Little Making Mediocrity Men Minds Own Radio Wallow Where

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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Allow Mind Will You Your

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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Bottle Front Full Me Rather Than

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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Advertising Before Existed Had Men Space World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: May 31st, 1894

Died: March 17th, 1956

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