Christina Baker Kline Quotes
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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Every relationship is work.
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It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
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I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.
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Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
