Maxine Kumin Quotes
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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People trash talk me.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.
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Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.
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I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.
