Christina Baker Kline Quotes
There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.
