Allison Tolman Quotes

I saw 'Fargo,' not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings - I'm sure my tape has been worn out.

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• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Vices
  • Our
  • Ladder

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Me

• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Big

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • Men
  • Short

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Truth
  • Conflict

• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Men

• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Too Much

• Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Strong
  • Light
  • Positive

• Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

  

  Mike Myers
  • Comedy
  • Things
  • Appetite

• Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Consciousness
  • Illusion
  • Memes

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Hand
  • Smile

• I saw 'Fargo,' not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings - I'm sure my tape has been worn out.

  

  Allison Tolman