Alan Jackson Quotes
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
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'You can keep your sword, for you fought proper. Like a proper soldier. Take your blade to paradise, and tell them you were killed by another proper soldier.'
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
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I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.
