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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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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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.
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Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.
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We got rid of parallel ports, the serial bus, floppy drives, physical keyboards on phones - do you miss the physical keyboards on your phone?
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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
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My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
