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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.

Alan Ball

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALL

Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
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 BALL

Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
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.’
ALAN BALL

Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALL

Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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.
ALAN BALL

Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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.
ALAN BALL

Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
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.
ALAN BALL

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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.
ALAN BALL

Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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.
ALAN BALL

Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALL

Environment Grew Most Progressive Say
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.
ALAN BALL

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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.
ALAN BALL

Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
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.
ALAN BALL

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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.
ALAN BALL

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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
ALAN BALL

Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALL

Believer Luck Need

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