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.
ALAN BALLIn 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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’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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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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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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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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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