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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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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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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Yo le pediría algo más a este mundo, si tuviese algo más este mundo.
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Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Somebody once told me I was skinny. That made me happy.
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Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.
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I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
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It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.
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I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.
