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.

  Alan Ball

  Pride, Clubs, Captains

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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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• 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.

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  Beauty, Wonder, Realizing

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

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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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• 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.

  Alan Ball

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

  Alan Ball

  Theme, Fascinated

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

  Alan Ball

  Environment, Progressive, Grew Up

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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.

  Alan Ball

  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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• 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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• 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 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.

  Alan Ball

  Sex, Heart, Romance

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

  Alan Ball

  Differences, Pace, Television

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

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• I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

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  Bisexual, Emotional, Who I Am

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