Maxine Kumin Quotes
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
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God made me pass through the disciplines of various paths. First according to the Puranas, then according to the Tantra. I also followed the disciplines of the Vedas...I practised all sorts of Sadhana .... During my Sadhana period I had all kinds of amazing visions.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.
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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
