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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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The Andalucían race is very strong. Another mystery- it has the most jealous people in the world, both men and women!
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I'll never like virtual keypads. Nothing can compete with an actual QWERTY-style keypad.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
