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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.

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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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.
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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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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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Never underestimate the power of denial.
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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'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.
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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
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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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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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