Alan Ball Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.'
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
