Allison Tolman Quotes

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

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• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Man
  • Need
  • Call

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • King
  • President
  • Demand

• I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Money
  • Take
  • Seriously

• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Time
  • Care

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Art
  • America
  • Theatre

• These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Mind
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Character
  • Want
  • Story

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

  

  Olof Palme

• If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Comedy

• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Universe

• We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

  

  Megan Smith
  • Kids
  • History

• I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

  

  Allison Tolman