Alan Ball Quotes
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
