Allison Tolman Quotes

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

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• As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Different
  • Long

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Boys
  • Means
  • Loving

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Technology
  • Quality

• When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Happy
  • Bear
  • Exchange

• Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Kind
  • Generation
  • Connected

• And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Doing
  • Clothes
  • Stronger

• I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• In contrast to 50 years ago, few licensed humanists today embrace any view of the humanities that could in fact justify making them the centerpiece of a college curriculum.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Today
  • College

• Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Country
  • Progress

• Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Financial

• I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter

• Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

  

  Jill McCorkle

• No one is exempt from he heartbreak that life brings, something we need to be reminded of when it comes our way.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Life
  • Heartbreak
  • Reminded

• I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

  

  Allison Tolman