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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.

Alan Ball

That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
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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Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
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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Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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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Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
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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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Alienation Certain Disconnection Factor Live Time
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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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Agenda Different Easy Look Metaphor Mind One Organization Shadow Similar Sound Thing
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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Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
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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Collective Legend Life Manifestation Myth Own Supernatural Thing Unconscious

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