Allison Tolman Quotes
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.
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When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.
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I believe that work is essential to human well-being.
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I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.
