Hal Borland Quotes
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.
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If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
