That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLHappy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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