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

Alan Ball

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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
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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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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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