Alison Jackson Quotes

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Alison Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterI AmPeopleThinkYou

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Jess Walter

LoveSchoolBreakfastBookLibrary

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

John Lurie

WantEverythingAvailableJustGuess

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

John Jay Chapman

DogLoveHatePeoplePhilosophy

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

Robert Jeffress

SpiritualValuesPersonalQuestion

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Stanislav Grof

ExperienceMedicalSchoolSitting

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

Stewart Rahr

LifeJourneySmallChooseWantHang

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

Rudy Vallee

BusinessMusicTodayDownYoung

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Dick Schaap

SportsLovedJumpBallCurveShot

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Donella Meadows

StrengthCourageWarAmazingSociety

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

Donald E. Westlake

MindDoingWrongTwoWhateverGuy

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

Chet Faker

ArtPeopleYouLookJust Because

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

Chevy Stevens

MeWorryCanadaKnowNeverWrite

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