black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALL

Believer Luck Need
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 BALL

Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
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

Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
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

Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALL

Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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.
ALAN BALL

Collective Legend Life Manifestation Myth Own Supernatural Thing Unconscious
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.
ALAN BALL

Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALL

Love Moment Present Thing
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
ALAN BALL

Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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.
ALAN BALL

Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALAN BALL

Believe Certain Human Iceberg Perceive Tip
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALL

Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALL

Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALL

Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALL

Anymore Community Real Sense
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.
ALAN BALL

Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Ball Quotes