Allison Tolman Quotes
I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
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From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
