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.
ALAN BALLIt’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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