Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALLThe ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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