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 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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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
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I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no interest in playing a normal girl in a romantic comedy in some cutesy thing.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
