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.
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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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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 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 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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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