Alison Jackson Quotes

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

Alison Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 15, 1960

Topics

DeathPeoplePrincessKnowWhyWay

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Jim Dale

EndFeelWalkingGuiltyBoyPoor

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Jewel

MyselfAlwaysBeenSinceSupporting

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.'

John Cameron Mitchell

PeopleMeThinkThoughtReachWorry

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

Stephenie Meyer

ExperienceSchoolMeDoingKnowKid

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

Steve Bannon

BabyGenerationCountrySpoiledMost

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo

AloneGreatReligionSpiritualPlace

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

Rita Rudner

TogetherGymDownSaidUp And Down

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Louis L'Amour

DayMenMilesSeenWouldBoast

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Jay Alan Sekulow

OpportunityDayYouNowFirstFail

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

Joni Mitchell

DaughterMoneyPlaceLostUpTake

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Christian Lacroix

GenerationHouseParisDressedOut

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Pope Paul VI

WisdomReachYouHandNeverOut

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