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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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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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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath 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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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