Alan Ball Quotes
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.
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As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.
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I can’t say anything. There are no words.
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It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
