Christina Baker Kline Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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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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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.
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In 'Kinky Boots,' I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren's gutsiness and smarts. She's a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.
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My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
