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.
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.
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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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 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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I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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’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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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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