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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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’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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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