Top 44 Hilarie Burton Quotes
#1. 'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.
Hilarie Burton
#2. For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.
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#3. I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.
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#4. I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.
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#5. There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.
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#6. I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.
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#7. Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
Mark Twain
#8. I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.
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#9. I move around a lot. I've lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.
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#10. I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.
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#11. In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.
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#12. I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.
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#13. Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. It's not my fault that these are the problems I've been put on this earth to deal with, right? They're petty, they piss me off, and they're all mine
Megan McCafferty
#15. Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
Hilarie Burton
#16. I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.
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#17. My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.
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#18. Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
John Piper
#19. I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
Pat Mastelotto
#20. I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.
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#21. I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?
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#22. I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.
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#23. I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.
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#24. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
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#25. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.
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#26. Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!
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#27. Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow.
Dan Groat
#28. Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
Spider Robinson
#29. Some things are just the blink of eternity's eye while others last forever.
Patrick O'Scheen
#30. Is there anything sexier than the noises a man makes during sex?
Belle Aurora
#31. What are you doing a study on right now?"
"A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.
Jennifer E. Smith
#32. I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.
Hilarie Burton
#33. Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#34. 'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
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#36. When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
Jeffrey Kluger
#37. I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.
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#38. I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.
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#39. Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.
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#41. Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.
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#42. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction - nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#43. I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
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#44. I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.
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