Edwin Jackson Quotes
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
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Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.
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What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.
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The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.
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Soaps have a schedule where you have to be done in 15 minutes. With an hour show, there's no way to get off schedule. On a movie, it's a lot easier to go back and reshoot scenes. I wasn't used to that at all... taking the time to really make each scene as good as it can be, which you can't do on soaps.
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I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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It's about going to the ball and making a play.
