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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.

Alan Ball

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Believe Certain Human Iceberg Perceive Tip
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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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
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
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
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
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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Bore Case Discover Journey No Nothing
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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Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
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’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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Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
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
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
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
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
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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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
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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