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You Quotes by Alan Ball
- In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get…
- Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
- I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
- The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
- You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads,…
- As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and…
- Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through…
- Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have…
- You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
- Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
More You Quotes
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide