Alphonso Jackson Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
Taylor Sheridan -
One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
Sam Rockwell -
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
Patrick Stewart -
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
Taylor Swift -
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
Sam Rockwell -
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman -
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
Jack Whitehall -
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
Orhan Pamuk -
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis -
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein -
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
Tariq Ali -
The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger -
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
J. Donald Walters
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I want to help my team win, and this is a winning organization, so there's no added pressure.
Eric Weddle -
My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.
Daniel Tammet -
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
Jesse Jackson -
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
Jose Andres -
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
Bonnie Hammer -
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
Alphonso Jackson