Allison Tolman Quotes

Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.

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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Dreams

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Future
  • Working
  • Camera

• As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Revenge

• Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Drama
  • Plan
  • Ever

• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Job
  • Career
  • Hate

• If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Down

• Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • World
  • Kind
  • Play

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Choices
  • Cold
  • Decisions

• Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Great
  • Better
  • Nothing

• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Suicide

• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Yourself

• One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.

  

  Bret McKenzie
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he's an amazing human being.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Time
  • Father
  • Amazing

• I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Career

• You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?

  

  Kass Morgan
  • Happy
  • Need
  • Point

• Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Training