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Never underestimate the power of denial.

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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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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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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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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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'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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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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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 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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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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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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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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