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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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'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 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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