Alan Ball Quotes
I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.
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about Nothing Else Matters James always wanted to be perceived as this guy who is very confident and strong. And for him to write lyrics like that - showing a sensitive side - took a lot of balls.
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I think there are some areas we can work together on to try to find some compromises.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.