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.
ALAN BALLI 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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