Hal Borland Quotes
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Quotes to Explore
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
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If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
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To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
