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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Alan Ball

That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
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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Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
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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Bore Case Discover Journey No Nothing
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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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Collective Legend Life Manifestation Myth Own Supernatural Thing Unconscious
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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Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
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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Certainly Goal Human Nature People Pursuit Read
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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Angel Couple Direct Moment Move On Time Want
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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Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
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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Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
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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Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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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Agenda Different Easy Look Metaphor Mind One Organization Shadow Similar Sound Thing
We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Alienation Certain Disconnection Factor Live Time

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