Allison Tolman Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I grew up in New York.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
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I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
