Christina Baker Kline Quotes
It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
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All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
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Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,The Elfin from the green grass, and from meThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
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Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
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I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
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They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.
