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

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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.
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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 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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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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