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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  Pride, Clubs, Captains

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Heart

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wonder, Realizing

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

  Alan Ball

  Touched, Everton

  "There is something special about Everton" by Luke O'Farrell, www.espn.com. October 23, 2013.

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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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  Thinking, Trying, Stories

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• I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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  Football, Believe, Luck

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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... 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.

  Alan Ball

  Life, Beauty, Heart

  "Fictional character: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 8, 1999.

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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. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

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  Distance, Reality, Love Is

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• The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

  Alan Ball

  Ego, Kind, Bigs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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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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  Successful, Strive, Can Do

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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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  Stories, Storytelling, Process

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• We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

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  Real, Community, Certain

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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. 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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  Mean, Thinking, Collective Unconscious

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• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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  Environment, Progressive, Grew Up

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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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  Happy Relationship, Watches, Want

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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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  Growing Up, Vampire, Saws

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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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  Impossible, Stills, Regions

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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• I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. 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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  Believe, Vampire, Tip Of The Iceberg

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• I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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  Buddhist, Believe, I Believe

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• I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

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  Book, Twilight, Vampire

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• I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

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  Spiritual, Integrity, Thinking

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• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

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  Buddhist, Belief

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• I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

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  America, Perfect, Understanding

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• We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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  Men, Culture, Okay

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• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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  Culture, Victimhood, Not Interested

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