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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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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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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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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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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I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.
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I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.
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Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.
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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
