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 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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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’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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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