It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 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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