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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
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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.
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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
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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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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.
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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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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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.
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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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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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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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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.
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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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