Alan Ball Quotes
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.Alan Ball
Quotes to Explore
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
Sam Graves -
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
Adam Michnik -
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
Fabiola Gianotti -
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
Tamron Hall -
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
Ed Emberley -
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte -
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.
Gail Z. Martin -
My forte is awkwardness.
Zach Galifianakis -
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis -
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
Barry Manilow
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta -
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
Aaron Neville -
A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
Halsey -
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
Irving Harper -
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
Randall Terry
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.
Charles McCarry -
AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.
Niki de Saint Phalle -
Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.
Akira Suzuki -
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
Joan Baez -
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
Alan Ball