Allison Tolman Quotes

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

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• To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Countries
  • Pure
  • Altruism

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Weird
  • Sound
  • Producer

• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • House
  • Alone
  • Understand

• I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Why

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Up
  • Live

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
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• We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Voting

• I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Always
  • Years
  • Television

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Training

• There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Question
  • Sides

• The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Great
  • Free
  • Rock

• First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

  

  Murray Head
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Great
  • City
  • Comedy