It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALLNot everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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It’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?
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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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