Alison Jackson Quotes
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
