For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALLLife 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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.
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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need 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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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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