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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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Alan Erwin Ball
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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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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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
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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 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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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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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
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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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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