I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 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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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 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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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