Hal Borland Quotes
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
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We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.
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Thus the cloud gradually drew off, and I again enjoyed life: and though I had several relapses, some of which lasted many months, I never again was as miserable as I had been.
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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
