Christina Baker Kline Quotes
Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.
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It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
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Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers.
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Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
