Alan Ball Quotes
Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.
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I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
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Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.
