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.
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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 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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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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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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