Allison Tolman Quotes
When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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People play with pain all the time.
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I know who the great poets are.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.
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When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.
