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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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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.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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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.
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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.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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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.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
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'Dancing With The Stars' is a little family. The cast, we're all together - we're a really friendly competition.
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But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
