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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Being me is a full-time job.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
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We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
