Alison Jackson Quotes

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

Alison Jackson

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• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Men
  • Home
  • War

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Fear
  • Marriage
  • Hurt

• Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Poverty
  • Teach
  • Privilege

• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Listening

• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Done
  • Drawing
  • Plant

• I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Perception

• I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Celebrity
  • Perception