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Hal Borland Quotes

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 14, 1900 - February 22, 1978

Topics

Nature Heart Tree Fire Flame Color

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

People Care Chess Pieces Big Move

I've always been the rock of my family.

Family Rock Always Been

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Time Weird Back Know Done Right

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

Trying Hard Normal Stay

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

People World Picture Choice Embrace

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

Change Shoes Game Long Play Matter

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

Man Friends Body Young Joke Stuck

Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.

Me Crazy You Know Say Kind

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

School People College Me Song Look

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Best Day Book Wish You Holiday

I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.

School Competition Conflict Wedding

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

Character Two Within Anything Idea

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