Allison Tolman Quotes

I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.

Allison Tolman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1981

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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

John Lewis

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I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Trey Gowdy

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American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

Ron Fournier

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You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

Judith Light

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I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

Dreama Walker

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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day

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There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

Donald Trump

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Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Debbie Ford

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What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

Bojana Novakovic

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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

Penn Jillette

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Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

Shane Black

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