Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
ALAN BALLI would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I 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.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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’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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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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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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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’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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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