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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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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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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.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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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

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