Allison Tolman Quotes
I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
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A being in a bonnet is not therefore a woman, a being with a beard is not therefore a man, nor yet is a wolf in sheepskin a lamb.
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Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.
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I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.