Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
ALAN BALLSometimes 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.
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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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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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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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 a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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’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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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