Alan Ball Quotes
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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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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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.