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.’
ALAN BALLOnce Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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 don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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