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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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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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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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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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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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 think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
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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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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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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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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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