Maxine Kumin Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.
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A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
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I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.
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So many poems you go into and come up empty.
