The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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