Alison Jackson Quotes
Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.
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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
