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 BALLI 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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 important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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 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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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