Alison Jackson Quotes
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
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Any free time I have, the family comes first.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
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Art is feminine.
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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
