Christina Baker Kline Quotes

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Christina Baker Kline

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I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

Jessica Chastain

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There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Maurice Herzog

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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

Roseanne Barr

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Maybe I didn't get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that were custom-made for another girl. I still have those skates. Underneath the arch, there was a name crossed out and my dad had 'Michelle Kwan' written in. Granted, they were a little big, but it worked.

Michelle Kwan

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A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Miley Cyrus

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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Jason Silva

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The first time I really had an influence on a show was during 'Ragtime.' It's still the most magical show that I've ever done.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.

Anthea Butler

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I like to do a lot of cardio.

Ashley Tisdale

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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Thomas Sowell

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In a world in which the United States does less, whatever set of calculations, other countries will tend to calculate - to move in one of two ways. Either they will assuage or, to use a more loaded term, appease the strongest power in the neighborhood with all the consequences of that, or they will determine to take matters into their own hands.

Richard N. Haass

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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Marina Abramovic

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