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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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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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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It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
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I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
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Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.
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Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.
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I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.
