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.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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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.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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?
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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!
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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.
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I know what poverty is.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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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.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.
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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.
