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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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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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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
