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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.

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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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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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.
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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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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.
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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'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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I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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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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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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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
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