Chris Borland Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.
