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 have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• 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

• When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Knows
  • New

• 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

• Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Family
  • Week

• 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

• You call me Mr. Pitiful. Baby that's my name now, oh. They call me Mr. Pitiful. That's how I got my fame. But people just don`t understand, now. What makes a man feel so blue, now. Ooh, they call me Mr. Pitiful. Cause I lost someone just like you, now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Lost
  • Baby

• 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

• Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Curious
  • Private
  • Carries

• Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Work
  • Trying

• Michael Carpenter My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Faith

• By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic
  • Innocent

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

  

  Alan Ball