I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.


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Based on the facts we have, police reports here give us cause for concern that there's other victims...
STEVE ALLEN
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were pop...
STEVE ALLEN
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions un...
STEVE ALLEN
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
FRED ALLEN
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
FRED ALLEN
Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?
FRED ALLEN
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
FRED ALLEN
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about t...
FRED ALLEN
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
FRED ALLEN
All television is children's television.
FRED ALLEN
If you took all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it in the navel of a fruit fly, you'd still have ...
FRED ALLEN
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
FRED ALLEN
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
FRED ALLEN
When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.
FRED ALLEN
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can ...
FRED ALLEN
You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and be...
ALLEN IVERSON
I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE
If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE
A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE
If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE
They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE
It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE
You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE
I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE
They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE
What we are seeking is for the federal government to pick up the gap, ... The amount that they offer...
ALLEN WALKER
I'm attached to my sailors. I'm not attached to my ship. (As) long as I bring my sailors back home t...
ALLEN WALKER
If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago,
ALLEN WALKER
I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th...
ALLEN WALKER
We lost everything in the house as far as the house goes. Didn't have no insurance on none of it.
ALLEN WALKER
It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our stude...
ALLEN WALKER
A lot of the romance of the West is in here.
ALLEN TUCKER
So, we are probably right about on average for the year. It was just a tough way to get there.
ALLEN TUCKER
Our neighborhood has seen plenty of rain this year,
ALLEN TUCKER
The weather this year sure has been a challenge.
ALLEN TUCKER
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
ALLEN TUCKER
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
ALLEN TUCKER
There's so much love that has been sent to that area, ... And I'm proud to be one of the senders. Bu...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT