Alison Jackson Quotes
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I had my first girlfriend at 15. Life was difficult then.
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Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.
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I think writing is one of the toughest things.
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One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.
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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
