Hal Borland Quotes
There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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No one is India.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
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They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
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We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
