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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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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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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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'
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I get a lot - a lot - of requests to make things that are like Lady Gaga. Like, 'I'm a 9-year-old girl in Wisconsin. Please dress me like Lady Gaga. How much would this cost?'
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More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
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When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
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I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.
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I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.
