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.’
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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’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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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