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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.

Alan Ball

Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
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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Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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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Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
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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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.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Environment Grew Most Progressive Say
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
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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Angel Couple Direct Moment Move On Time Want
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense

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 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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