Alan Ball Quotes
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
