Amy Jackson Quotes
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.
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My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
