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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.

Alan Ball

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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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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 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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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