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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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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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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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.
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I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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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.
