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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My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.
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I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.
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It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
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Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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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.
