Hal Borland Quotes
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I buy way too many books.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I’m going to fight for every American in every last part of this nation. We have a president who doesn’t fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time.
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I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
