Christina Baker Kline Quotes
As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.