Alan Ball Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I love fashion, but I don't really do shopping.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.
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I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.
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I think it's just important for people to lead by example.
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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
