Alan Ball Quotes

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

Alan Ball

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LifeThoughtEnoughLongYouKnow

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

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Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Jerry Weller

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It seems almost impossible to me that the whole world doesn't know CPR.

Jennifer Coolidge

MeWorldImpossibleKnowWhole

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

John Krasinski

FunnyGoodMomentsYouPlaySerious

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

Robert Gottlieb

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I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

Jeff Goldblum

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In a serious relationship, I will definitely write music about a guy. I'm totally into mix tapes and I'm all about small little things. I'll drop by their door and just leave a gift or come over if they're sick and make them chicken noodle soup and rent a DVD and play board games. I think those little things mean a lot to someone.

Aly Michalka

MusicRelationshipDoorLittle Things

My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge.

Tracy Morgan

LoveBackEdgeSeeFansCome

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Judy Garland

GirlOriginal

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

Deborah Tannen

WomenMenResearchEarlyCareer

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

Christopher Moore

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I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

Brett Gelman

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