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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
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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'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires I have to do a show about vampires.'
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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
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