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

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
Director
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Television Producer
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Atlanta
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Alan Erwin Ball
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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
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I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.
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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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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 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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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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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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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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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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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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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 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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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 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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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
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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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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
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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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I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.
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