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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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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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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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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What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.
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It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
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Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
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Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
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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.
