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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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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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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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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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.
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If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
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I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
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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.
