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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.
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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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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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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 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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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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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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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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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 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.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
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The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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