Ian Jackson Quotes
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.
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I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
