Alison Jackson Quotes
A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
Quotes to Explore
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
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It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
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It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.
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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
