Ian Jackson Quotes
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
