Edward Ball Quotes
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
-
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
-
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
-
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
-
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
-
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
-
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
-
I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
-
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
-
Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
-
Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
-
I'm a darned good listener.
-
I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
-
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
-
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
-
I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
-
Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.
-
Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.
-
I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
-
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
-
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
