Allison Tolman Quotes
I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.
