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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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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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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Love is a flower of life – sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom – you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.
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The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream.
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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.