Alan Ball Quotes, Stories Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

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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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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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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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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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

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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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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

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It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

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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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Never underestimate the power of denial.

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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

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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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When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

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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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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

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