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

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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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'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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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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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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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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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 a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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