Alan Ball Quotes, Culture Quotes, Victimhood Quotes

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

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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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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 guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

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I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

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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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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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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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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

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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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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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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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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

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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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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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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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