We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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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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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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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