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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I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
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Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
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I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
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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.
