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.
ALAN BALLI’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.’
More Alan Ball Quotes
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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