Christina Baker Kline Quotes
I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
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The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.
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I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
