Alison Jackson Quotes
Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.
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Don't we all want what's best for each other?
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We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.
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Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.
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Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
