Chris Borland Quotes
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I don't do negative things.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'
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I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.
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When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
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You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'
