Alan Ball Quotes

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Home
  • Dream

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Man

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Day
  • Always
  • Diet

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Health
  • Language
  • Resolve

• People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • War
  • Small

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Passion

• When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Support

• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Small

• A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Halloween

• I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

  

  James Comey
  • School
  • Home
  • Experience

• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Gym
  • Swimming

• I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

  

  Ai-jen Poo

• You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Pain
  • Ways
  • Specific

• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  

  Alan Ball