Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALLThat’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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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