Allison Tolman Quotes
I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.
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I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.
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Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
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There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.
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I recall us selling out L.A.'s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we'd only sold 120 tickets. This was when 'City Of Evil' was really taking off in the U.S., but it seemed like Europe was less interested.
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I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
