Alan Ball Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
Harold Ramis -
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
Ted Cruz -
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
Dan Millman
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
Randy Pausch -
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp -
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
Kara Swisher -
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Hank Johnson
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
Haley Joel Osment -
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker -
I'm a dork!
Cameron Russell -
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
Rachel Joyce -
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
Park Chan-wook
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
Bayard Taylor -
I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
Rachael Ray -
I know I can count on my mum and brother to be there for me through good and bad times.
Bindi Irwin -
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka -
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
Alan Ball