Alan Ball Quotes
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.
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I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
