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.
ALAN BALLI 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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.
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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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