Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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 a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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