Alan Ball Quotes, Strong Quotes, Heart Quotes

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

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I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

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