I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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 BALLI 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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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 BALLThat’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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.
ALAN BALLI mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLWe 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.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALAN BALLI certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
ALAN BALLHappy 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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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