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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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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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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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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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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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I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
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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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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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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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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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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 have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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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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