Allison Tolman Quotes

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

Allison Tolman

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• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Change

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Try
  • Where

• Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Down
  • Take

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Aesthetic

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • Church

• Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Funny

• There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Character
  • You
  • Decisions

• Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Work
  • Rate
  • Exchange

• I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • Working

• If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeup and then party until 5 A.M.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Up
  • Party
  • Day

• I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Long
  • Small

• Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Help

• I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Bad

• A calm mind is not disturbed by waves of thoughts. Calm the winds of your thoughts and there will be no waves in the ocean of your mind.

  

  Asaram
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Waves

• When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

  

  Allison Tolman