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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Alan Ball

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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
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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’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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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.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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