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.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Shine
  • Season

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • May
  • Look
  • Yoga

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• 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.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
  • Past

• I'm far from being a homosexual.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Being
  • Far
  • Homosexual

• It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• 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.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.

  

  Ben Schott
  • American
  • House
  • Political

• I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Live
  • Character

• I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

  

  Marko Jaric
  • People

• We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Forever
  • Face
  • Ourselves

• It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

  

  Allison Tolman
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