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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
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I love futurist music.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
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You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'
