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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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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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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Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
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He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.
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It's about going to the ball and making a play.
