Alan Ball Quotes

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Alan Ball

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• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Training

• The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Up
  • History
  • Peace

• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • Calling
  • Pursued

• As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Time
  • Think
  • Labels

• Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Christmas
  • Something

• I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Things

• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Rest

• We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.

  

  Jimmy Carter

• A small but brilliant advance made today by someone’s awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it’s valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the whole world of consciousness. So in that sense it’s all working toward this huge audience, and all working toward a better man.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • May
  • Today

• You shut your mouth,How can you say I go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Great
  • Real
  • Fun

• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • Time
  • Jealousy

• There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Trying
  • Alone

• I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

  

  William Beckett
  • People
  • Stories
  • Surprise

• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

  

  Bill Scott

• For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshadowed by the entertainment value, if you will, family appeal, that you have, the convention appeal. So it does not have disfavor with me, in my opinion, relative to being an NFL city.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Family
  • City
  • Value

• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

  

  Alan Ball