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.
Larisa Oleynik -
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone -
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell
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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.
Walter Cronkite -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Karen Abbott -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Harrison Ford -
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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Nancy Meyers -
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?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
Eberhard Weber -
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley -
What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins -
I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
Jane Green -
That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
Don Young -
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
Alan Ball