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.
ALAN BALLLife 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 important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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.
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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’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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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’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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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’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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