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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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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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.
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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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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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