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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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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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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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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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.
