Alan Ball Quotes

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Alan Ball

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CultureDeathHappyMeAmericanYou

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

Jimmy Smits

WorkGoodYourselfGood WorkThink

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

Amy Seimetz

TimeMovingLongYouSittingBoring

I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.

Trisha Yearwood

PeopleMeLongTouchKeepDeal

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Robbie Williams

GoodThinkTreasureWhySeeWhy Not

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Ron Wyden

FamilyHealthVisionFireSafety

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

Jude Law

LifeGreatTimePeopleChampion

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

Clement Attlee

HouseGlassDaysChampagneFive

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

Ari Graynor

HumorPiecesSituationalSetComedic

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre de Fermat

PowerImpossibleBeyondTwoSquare

Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.

Synyster Gates

MeMorePrettyGuyRollingBeatles

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

I AmNightWake UpThinkProblem

If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

Persis Khambatta

PositiveThoughtHealthyWillOut

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