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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?

Alan Ball

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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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Alan Ball

Meaningful, Jobs, Frustrated

"American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 08, 1999.

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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

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Vampire, Way, Metaphor

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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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Racism, Matter, Ridiculous

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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

Alan Ball

Character, Thinking, Roots

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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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Eye, Wind, America

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. 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?

Alan Ball

Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

Alan Ball

Other Cultures, Want, Way

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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

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Years, Details, Levels

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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

Alan Ball

Heart, Self, Looks

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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Alan Ball

Song, Choices, Alive

"Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball talks about the end of the HBO series" by Brian B., movieweb.com. May 25, 2005.

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Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

Alan Ball

Book, Reading, Weekend

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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

Alan Ball

Long, Trying, Maps

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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Alan Ball

Blood, People, Monkeys

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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

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Character, Important, Care

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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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Sex, Heart, Romance

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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. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

Alan Ball

Journey, Numbers, Bored

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

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I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

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Looks, Want, Mental Health

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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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Mean, People, Cost

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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.

Alan Ball

Couple, Moving, Noon

"Death? That's a laugh" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.

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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Alan Ball

World, Environment, Window

"American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 8, 1999.

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