Maxine Kumin Quotes
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.
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If this be a happy new year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important, then, to feel our dependence upon Him!
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Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
