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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’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
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
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
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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Else Make Wonder
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
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
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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Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Easy Fear Group Look Metaphor Misunderstood Vampire
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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Agenda Different Easy Look Metaphor Mind One Organization Shadow Similar Sound Thing
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
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
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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
We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Alienation Certain Disconnection Factor Live Time

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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