Alan Ball on moment
Alan Ball34 quotes“For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.”
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
Alan BallAlan Ball The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
Alan BallAlan Ball I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
Alan BallAlan Ball 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.
Alan BallAlan Ball I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
Alan BallAlan Ball I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
Alan BallAlan Ball It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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I may be incapable of adding Any moments onto our lives, Nor taking back my mistakes. But I could never ponder subtracting even a minute from our lives together.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown All it takes is a moment to fall in love with somebody for a lifetime.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond I feel I am stuck in memories of ours there is no past or the future but a series of moments halted without a given command. And time has stopped making sense.
Kanika ChughKanika Chugh Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon I’m not sure how love changes, how I can be head over heels one moment and not stand you next.
Court YoungCourt Young Eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein I wait for you in moments I cannot see. -Unrequited.
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