#ow

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#collaboration #color #first #had #house

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person? ↗

— Debbie Allen

#acting #basics #examine #feel #first

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

— Fred Allen

#mind #overstatement #will #you #your

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

— Fred Allen

#because #family #i #know #look

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

— Fred Allen

#coffin #fit #i #into #own

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first

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

— Fred Allen

#carbon #little #little men #making #mediocrity

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. ↗

— James Allen

#called #channels #easy #energy #fall

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#get #know #many #number #once

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. ↗

— James Allen

#coerce #command #guidance #him #himself