B. R. Hayden Quotes
We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.
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Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.
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We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.
