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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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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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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Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
