Allison Tolman Quotes
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
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Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.
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I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.
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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
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...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so.
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At Clements, I was an officer in Thespian Troupe No. 3689.
