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
  • Life
  • 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
  • Netflix

• 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
  • Music
  • Done
  • Song

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • 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

• The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

  

  Christen Press
  • Life
  • American

• I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Future
  • Crazy
  • Determination

• I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Father
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • May
  • High

• I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great

• 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