Allison Tolman Quotes

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

Allison Tolman

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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.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Long
  • American
  • Beach

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• 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.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Artist
  • First
  • Portrait

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Women
  • Done
  • She

• Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui uictoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat euentus, dimicet arte, non casu.

  

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• I'd go to clinics and hear coaches say, 'You block with your helmet. You tackle with your helmet.' I'd say, 'No way! You block with your shoulder. It's a lot stronger blow, and you don't risk nearly as much. Why be stupid?'

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Stupid

• I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • People