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I 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 Ball

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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
I 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.
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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Alienation Certain Disconnection Factor Live Time
That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
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’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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Environment Grew Most Progressive Say
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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I 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.
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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’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’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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Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Nothing Once Person Same Touch

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