Alison Quotes

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

People are always very nice.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I like to take a character and develop it

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

I'll live in another world, then.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

In digital, you may have your big launch, but then you continue to work, and you continue to innovate and continue to enhance your platforms as you go along.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

True badassery has no gender.

We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.