Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALLNot everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALLSometimes 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.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLIt’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
ALAN BALLThe ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALLWe don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
ALAN BALLI think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLI’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.’
ALAN BALLBeauty 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.
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.
ALAN BALLI would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLI certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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