That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLNot everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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