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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.

Alan Ball

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Believe Certain Human Iceberg Perceive Tip
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Nothing Once Person Same Touch
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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Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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Else Make Wonder
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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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Access Belief Belive Definitely Kind Necessary Thing Vampire Werewolves
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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Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
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Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
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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Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
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.’
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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire

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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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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