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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

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
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 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
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
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
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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Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
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
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 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
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 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
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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
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
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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Access Belief Belive Definitely Kind Necessary Thing Vampire Werewolves

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