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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.

Alan Ball

It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 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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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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