Alan Ball Quotes
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Alan Ball
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
Patricia McBride
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
J. B. Pritzker
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
Q-Tip
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When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
Mahesh Babu
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
Carine Roitfeld
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
Karen DeCrow
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If a kid is being bullied at school, my advice to them is to punch the bully in the face. The government can create as many boards, commissions, and informational sessions on sensitivity that it wants. The fact is, we still have bullies, and we still have victims who are trained not to stand up for themselves.
Joe Wurzelbacher
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Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.
Lily Cole
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
Bernie Siegel
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I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
Mark Ruffalo
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When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.
Blake Lively
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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Alan Ball