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.
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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 don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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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 think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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.
