Allen Covert
Related ANN RICHARDS I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theat... ELLEN PAGE I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that... DAMIAN LEWIS ALEK WEK Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity.... ALEX KINGSTON STEVE SCALISE I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER CARL HONORE JASON BATEMAN Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#... BECK BENNETT I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tang... SHREYA GHOSHAL PETER JACKSON I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I... EMMA BUNTON I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se... D. J. MACHALE ALFONSO CUARON The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world o... YEHUDA AMICHAI CANDACE BUSHNELL Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, &... JAMES BAY CAROLINE KENNEDY I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying ... SCHOOLBOY Q VERA WANG TED DEKKER BRAD PITT BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN JASON RITTER STEVE MARTIN JARED LETO DAVID SOUL GRETCHEN RUBIN DAVE NAVARRO LOUISE BROWN RICHARD DAWKINS I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up bein... JENNIFER DAMIANO Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN JANEANE GAROFALO PETER ACKROYD PATRICIA BRIGGS All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea... KATHRYN MAGENDIE Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I... JOY MANGANO JOHNNY DEPP HANNAH KENT BEN HOPKINS LZ GRANDERSON KATE MOSS KATE THOMPSON BAT FOR LASHES When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being... AUTUMN REESER REBECCA BLACK HUNTER HAYES DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I wo... MALORIE BLACKMAN HUNTER HAYES ROMA DOWNEY BEN LOVETT Obviously, a lot of TV shows are based on chronological episode viewing, and the stories are conting... CARY FUKUNAGA When I started reading novels that really charged me or did something to me, that's when I started t... MICHAEL CONNELLY LOUIS SACHAR It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things l... MAE WHITMAN I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch game... XAVI I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my... KATE BUSH ALICIA VIKANDER I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrus... LACEY CHABERT R. KELLY ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on st... ELIZABETH MARVEL I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get t... DANA BRUNETTI NICKI MINAJ KANDYSE MCCLURE I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ... DEBRA MESSING JOHN LEGEND 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' I did an episode on, and that's one of my favori... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th... ELLEN POTTER ERIC CLAPTON I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fac... ROSS BUTLER I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by num... M.I.A. We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see... BRETT YOUNG BO BURNHAM I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT EDGAR WRIGHT I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's real... ERIC SAN PATRICIA CORNWELL SUE TOWNSEND SUKARNO GAEL GARCIA BERNAL ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT EZEKIEL EMANUEL KATE KLISE I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but re... C. J. BOX I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful s... MELANIE LAURENT I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what wo... JAMES AVERY I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written,... ALAN ZWEIBEL LISA LOEB MICHAEL MORPURGO In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adve... MALORIE BLACKMAN When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I wo... IAN MARSHALL RACHEL CUSK CHARLES FRAZIER EARTHA KITT ADELAIDE KANE I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea... AL ROKER
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I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those p... ALLEN COVERT Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love... ALLEN COVERT WOODY ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TIM ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN RALPH ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses,... KAREN ALLEN People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man. KAREN ALLEN There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York. KAREN ALLEN I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in th... KAREN ALLEN If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life. KAREN ALLEN The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It&#... KAREN ALLEN A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I los... KAREN ALLEN I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. KAREN ALLEN I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm goin... KAREN ALLEN I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing i... KAREN ALLEN Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would t... KAREN ALLEN As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that... KAREN ALLEN Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws. KAREN ALLEN I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago. KAREN ALLEN My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't wa... KAREN ALLEN I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I coul... KAREN ALLEN I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interes... KAREN ALLEN I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some ele... KAREN ALLEN Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind... KAREN ALLEN I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire t... KAREN ALLEN I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent. KAREN ALLEN You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I wan... KAREN ALLEN I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying... KAREN ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN TED ALLEN JAMES ALLEN WOODY ALLEN ALLEN WEST Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease... TOM ALLEN JAMES ALLEN JAMES ALLEN JAMES ALLEN JAMES ALLEN ALLEN IVERSON ALLEN WEST ALLEN IVERSON ALLEN BOYD The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen So... NANCY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. DEBBIE ALLEN WOODY ALLEN ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG GEORGE ALLEN TIM ALLEN ALLEN WEST WOODY ALLEN ALLEN WEST The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou... TOM ALLEN I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations wit... DAVID ALLEN I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. Th... DAVID ALLEN The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adju... DAVID ALLEN By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packagi... DAVID ALLEN This partnership of resources is a positive for our customers and farmers. DAVID ALLEN There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the ca... DAVID ALLEN We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed. DAVID ALLEN We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm. DAVID ALLEN I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because... DAVID ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side... RICK ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but ... ALLEN COULTER ALFIE ALLEN Fifty-four forty, or fight. WILLIAM ALLEN ALLEN IVERSON ALLEN WEST We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go. ADAM ALLEN You've got to put it out of your mind. ADAM ALLEN I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world. ADAM ALLEN We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is ... ADAM ALLEN I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being... ADAM ALLEN We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept batt... ADAM ALLEN We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battli... ADAM ALLEN I got a little present. I'm just glad we got the win. It's a big deal in Milton. We have great fans,... ADAM ALLEN They tried to make other people beat them, which we did. ADAM ALLEN That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in... ADAM ALLEN WOODY ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN STEVE ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN FRED ALLEN 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 This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for ... ALLEN TOUSSAINT It's surprising to me how much has happened in such a short length of time, ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurri... ALLEN TOUSSAINT Southern Nights. ALLEN TOUSSAINT Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues). ALLEN TOUSSAINT Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my bod... ALLEN TOUSSAINT [Yet other artists and culture mavens say that the city has always swayed to its own meandering rhyt... ALLEN TOUSSAINT holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome. ALLEN TOUSSAINT the great American songbook. ALLEN TOUSSAINT We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ... ALLEN THOMPSON This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu... ALLEN THOMPSON We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ... ALLEN THOMPSON It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown. ALLEN THOMPSON It was obviously a long day. ALLEN TERRELL We struggled all week. We just couldn't quite get it going. We may have overlooked it a bit mentally... ALLEN TERRELL I never really know what is good or not, how much you win by. If you win by one, five, 10, 20, we're... ALLEN TERRELL We just played real solid from one through five. When we've got all five guys playing well at one to... ALLEN TERRELL We've been waiting all year for someone to step up and grab hold of that fifth spot, and he's obviou... ALLEN TERRELL I think [the struggles] helped him see the mind-set he needed to see through the changes he was maki... ALLEN TERRELL We're a heck of a team, too. ALLEN TERRELL ELISE ALLEN EMERY ALLEN ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN WOODY ALLEN Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ALLEN SAUNDERS ALLEN GINSBERG WOODY ALLEN
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with... 
I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become ... 
The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories wr... 
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent... 
I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it... 
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' ... 
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking B... 
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... 
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t... 
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio... 
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... 
How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fig... 
When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like,... 
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don... 
I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th... 
I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see s... 
I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children. 
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Wheneve... 
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don... 
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children.... 
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like &#... 
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof ... 
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and ... 
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... 
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ... 
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a cr... 
I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don't push anyone or affect anyone's sp... 
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile d... 
I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so che... 
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ... 
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a... 
I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they w... 
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... 
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was v... 
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the ... 
As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it... 
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little'... 
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and '... 
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l... 
I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a p... 
I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that a... 
I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinar... 
There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life ... 
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or al... 
I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite ... 
I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, wa... 
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would... 
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'... 
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I wo... 
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love... 
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... 
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... 
Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, d... 
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... 
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... 
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal tha... 
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. 
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happe... 
I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they soun... 
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. 
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving y... 
My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is... 
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit... 
I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy. 
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting ... 
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me. 
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and pot... 
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. 
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ... 
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure ... 
A man is literally what he thinks. 
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... 
You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you. 
The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual ... 
I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the firs... 
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to h... 
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. 
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging them... 
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government. 
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and be... 
I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke. 
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -... 
It's the most complete team they've had since they had Xavier Lee and Kenny Scott. 
If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black hole engines you could ge... 
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. 
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. 
Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? 
See?" I crowed. "I know what I'm doing. Two weeks, tops, and you'll be begging to dip your fries in ... 
Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? 
I’m with you in Rockland