Anne Jackson (Anna Jane Jackson) Quotes
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
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So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest.
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I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
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Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
