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.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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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.
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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.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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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.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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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.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.
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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.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
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Food makes me happy. Make me work round the clock, but just feed me first!
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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.
