Alan Ball Quotes

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

Alan Ball

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WorkGoodFeelCareerWantOver

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

John McGahern

LifeRomanticWordsWorldStartSee

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.

Ann Maxwell

PeopleCityBornSome PeopleSome

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

ImmigrationLatinoPointGateway

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

Amish Tripathi

MeWorldBookHelpDifferentSongs

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

Mat Kearney

LifeLovePainLearnTryingMore

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Mike Nichols

BestRoadTryingLongYouAnything

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

Logic

BlackPassBecauseGetClaimOther

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

GodYouSpiritGiveCowardiceDid

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

Christian Bale

RomanticDoingYouKnowSayStreet

Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.

Clemantine Wamariya

LoveMeStoryEverythingOwnThings

Since I was a kid, I liked construction.

Ciputra

ConstructionKidLikedSince

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

Bobby Bowden

LifeFootballMy LifeNothingNever

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