Allison Tolman Quotes
It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
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It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
