Alison Jackson Quotes
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.
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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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Δύσφρων γὰρ ἰὸς καρδίαν προσήμενοςἄχθος διπλοίζει τῷ πεπαμένῳ νόσον·τοῖς τ' αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πήμασιν βαρύνεταικαὶ τὸν θυραῖον ὄλβον εἰσορῶν στένει.
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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I think action, as a genre, is every actor's dream.
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I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.
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Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.
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I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.
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There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.
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Things always look better when you haven't seen them.
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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
