We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out.
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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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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