Christina Baker Kline Quotes
Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
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You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
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Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.
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I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
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In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.
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Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.
