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 think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
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I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.
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I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
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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.
