Allison Tolman Quotes
As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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Given the shrinking populations inside Europe and the waves of immigrants rolling in from Africa and the Middle and Near East, an Islamic Europe seems to be in the cards before the end of the century.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
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I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.
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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
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As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
