I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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