Allison Tolman Quotes
I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
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I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
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When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.
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So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
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I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.
