Alan Ball Quotes

I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.

Alan Ball

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Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

Joe Manganiello

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Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Andre Leon Talley

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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Tori Amos

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Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

Robin Wright

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I have always loved going to school.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Rumi

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Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

Rupi Kaur

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I'm a pretty light-hearted person.

Miles Teller

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If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

Liz Goldwyn

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As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Jonathan Jackson

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As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

David Shields

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