I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALLSometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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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