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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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 think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Let me lay emphasis on the opportunity now presented in the United States for observing and, if we are wise, aiding in what I think it fair to say is the grandest opportunity ever presented of developing the finest race the world has ever known out of the vast mingling of races brought here by immigration.
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
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Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
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But it's continued on and it's definitely been the longest run of low scores I've had to endure in my international career.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.
