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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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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.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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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.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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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.
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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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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.
