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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

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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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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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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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 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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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 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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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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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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