Alan Ball Quotes, Looks Quotes, Want Quotes

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

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I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

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

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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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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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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

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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'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

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When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

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

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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

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It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

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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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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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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

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