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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

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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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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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
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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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 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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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

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