Alan Ball Quotes
I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I love books.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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I would love for The Goldbergs to continue for as long as we can possibly let it happen, because it's my favorite thing I've ever done, and I can't imagine my life without it.
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I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
