"I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms.……" — Alan Ball
"I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms."
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40 Quotes by Alan Ball
Alan Ball has 40 quotes on this site.
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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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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on…
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More Familiar Quotes
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was…
— Eric Bana
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
— Joseph Addison
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— Ambrose Bierce
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are…
— William S. Burroughs
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied…
— Barbara Bush
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