Hal Borland Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.It’s hard to call any of my novels 'fiction.'
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Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
