Alan Ball Quotes
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
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During my film career, I have received love and affection from Indian cinegoers. I have received unconditional love from them.
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
