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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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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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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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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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
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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.
