Alan Ball Quotes
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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O vitae tuta facultaspauperis angustique lares! o munera nondumintellecta deum!
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My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.
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The past is where its supposed to be.
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'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.
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Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
