Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
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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 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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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