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• It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

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  Beauty, Gratitude, Stupid

  "Fictional character: Lester Burnham". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 8, 1999.

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• The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

  Alan Ball

  Sex, School, Ideas

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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 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.

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  Meaningful, Jobs, Frustrated

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

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Blood, People, Monkeys

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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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• 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?

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  Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

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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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• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

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  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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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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• As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

  Alan Ball

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

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  Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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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 am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

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  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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  Gay, Age, Grew Up

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• When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

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  Home, Vampire, Want

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• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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  Differences, Pace, Television

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

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• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

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  Three, Pages, Reason

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• I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

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  Thinking, Soul, Window

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• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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  Character, Thinking, World

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• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

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  Character, Emotional, People

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

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