Alan Ball Quotes
I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
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For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
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I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
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The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
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I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
