That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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