Alan Ball Quotes

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

Alan Ball

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My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

Joan Rivers

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I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

Andrea Arnold

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We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Maurice Strong

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I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

John Tavener

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King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA's most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.

Ron Williams

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A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Roman Coppola

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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Josephine Baker

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This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Desiree Rogers

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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

China Machado

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Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

Chris Renaud

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