"You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter."

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Source : "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

Alison Jackson

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“If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.”
“The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.”
“I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.”
“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan
“When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.”

Source : "The X-Philes" by Sandy Balfour, www.theguardian.com.
“A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.”

Source : "Watch The Making Of Jennifer Lawrence's 'Be Dior' Campaign" by Chrissy Mahlmeister, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2014.
“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
“We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.”

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