Christina Baker Kline Quotes
Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees.
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You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.
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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.
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Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.
