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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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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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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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company's values. Values make an unsinkable ship.' Code of conduct goes beyond legal compliance and every employee needs to be well versed with it.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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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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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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Shows in the '70s and '80s were a lot more provocative. Shows that are coming out now - like 'Black-Ish,' 'The Carmichael Show' - are showcasing people of color in a new way. It's not stereotypical.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
