Christina Baker Kline Quotes
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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To be honest I had learnt martial arts for a girl. So I started learning the art to impress her, but eventually I started loving martial art more than the girl. So later it became a habit it became fun.
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Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.
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That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.
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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
