Maxine Kumin Quotes
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Maxine Kumin
Quotes to Explore
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose
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I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
Daryl Hannah
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Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.
Dweezil Zappa
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Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
Jean Stafford
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
Kate Williams
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Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Maxine Kumin
