Christina Baker Kline Quotes
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	What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.   
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	I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.   
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	If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.   
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	Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.   
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	Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.   
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	Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.   
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	I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.   
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	If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.   
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	I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.   
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	The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.   
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	My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.   
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	I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.   
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	My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.   
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	I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.   
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	I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.   
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	...man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him-that he is brother to dragons. (He is certainly a brother to wolves, and to pandas too, but he is father to dragons, not brother: they, like many gods and devils, are inventions of his.)   
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	Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.   
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	I especially like girls who know how to share the conversation, and not just talk about themselves. I think a movie, followed by dinner is a perfect first date. For a romantic date - ice skating.   
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	Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.   
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	One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.   
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	Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.   
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	I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.   
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	For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.   
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	I like meeting and connecting with readers.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					