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" California is a great place to live if you're an orange. "
Fred Allen
Place
Orange
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" Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. "
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" An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. "
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" My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. "
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Southern
He
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Who
Woman
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" Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. "
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" I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. "
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