Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
ALAN BALLIt’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?
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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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 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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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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