Allison Tolman Quotes
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the red carpet, either.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
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I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
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My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
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I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
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Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.
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I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.
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And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.
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In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.
