We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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