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Christina Baker Kline Quotes

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

Christina Baker Kline

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Gift Giving Army You Embrace Years

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Work Change Time Think Long Will

If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.

Funny Yourself Believe Doing You

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

Stars Parents Road Musicians You

A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.

Car Myself Moment People Saying Won

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

Success Myself Success Is Define Get

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

Time Value Free You Information

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common Sense Doing Seeing Done Sense

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Dog Job Photography Years Producer

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

Control Worry I Can Temper Something

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Trust Stupid Lazy Him Like He

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

Actor Become Never Singer Understood

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

Work Love Job Work Hard Generation

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