"Happy relationships are boring. We all want them……" — Alan Ball
"Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV."
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40 Quotes by Alan Ball
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take…
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I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not…
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's…
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or…
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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