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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.

Alan Ball

We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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Else Make Wonder
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.
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Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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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Bore Case Discover Journey No Nothing
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
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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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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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