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.
ALAN BALLHappy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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 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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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
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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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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It’s also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
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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.
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