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 BALLI’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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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’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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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 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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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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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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