Allison Tolman Quotes
I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
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I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
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Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
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Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
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It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.
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People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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You've got to be brave.
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I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.
