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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.
Alan Ball
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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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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'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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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 guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
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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'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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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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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
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