Annabel Tollman Quotes
My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.
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I came back from Standing Rock, and one of the things that struck me was their respect for elders. It was something that I felt like I needed to work on in my life.
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To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
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Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
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It's ok to show all your colors.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.
