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I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

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
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Believe Certain Human Iceberg Perceive Tip
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
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
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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Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
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
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
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
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
It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Easy Fear Group Look Metaphor Misunderstood Vampire
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
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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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

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