Allison Janney Quotes
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
Janney, Allison. Interview. Playbill, Playbill Inc., 12 Apr. 2009.
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Newport, Rhode Island, was a “hotbed” of patriots and was the 5th largest city in Colonial America. Wallace’s flag ship shelled military targets from the sea and threatened to bombard and destroy the town with naval gunfire. However, his superior, Admiral Graves, and he both thought that was too severe a step to take. So there was some restraint exercised by some British commanders in the American Revolution. The worst atrocities were in the South and committed by the British Army—the subject of the American motion picture, “The Patriot”.
Indeed his valet was a spy who worked for the British. However, Franklin assumed that European courts and capitals were filled with spies, and instead of trying constantly to ferret them out, he made sure that he never allowed anyone to know what he wanted to keep secret. While Jefferson essentially adopted the same viewpoint, John Adams, much more uptight and rigid, was very distressed with Franklin over their differences in counter-espionage strategy. In reality, no secrets ever leaked back to England, but their spies sent some of the most absurd reports of the “evil” Dr. Franklin. He was designing a huge set of lenses that could be pointed at the British fleet in the Channel, magnify the rays of the sun and set the ships ablaze. Another had Franklin designing a chain that would be stretched from France to England and an electric current transmitted thereupon causing the English island to blow up. These reports made Franklin and the French the first who were feared for their plans to design and deploy weapons of mass destruction.
Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.
