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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.
Alan Ball
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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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