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.

Maxine Kumin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1925 - February 6, 2014

Topics

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Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

John Barrow

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I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

ActKnewWantedFull-Time

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Meg Tilly

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In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Max Greenfield

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I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

John Sayles

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You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

Steve Wozniak

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Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

Tom Perez

WorkValueChildPeopleSickVoice

A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't.

Tom Sizemore

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There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler

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I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Christie Hefner

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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Paul Watson

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I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Paula Deen

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