Alison Jackson Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.
