Kramer Quotes

• The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

  Hilton Kramer

  Art, Explanation, Maximum

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.

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• Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Memorable, Thirsty, Performance Review

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• I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

  Robert Benton

  Sex, Law, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Super trouper of the silver screen" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Gay, Yale

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• I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

  Kevin Sessums

  Believe, Class, Reunion

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• Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Yale, Numbers

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• [Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

  Kevin Sessums

  Fall, Betrayed, Said

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• Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.

  Kevin Sessums

  Way, Problem, Disappoint

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• I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Long, People

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• I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

  Kevin Sessums

  Book, Notice Me, Larry

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• [Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Thinking, Max

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• [Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Mad, President

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• "Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Names, Different

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• We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Mutual, Knows

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• There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.

  Kevin Sessums

  School, Yale, Class

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• A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

  Tony Kushner

  Uncles, Drama, Heart

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, People, Reunion

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• I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.

  Kevin Sessums

  Children, Yale, Years

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• Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, People, Easier

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

  Alex Scarrow

  Drs

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• Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

  Phil Silvers

  Turns, Stanley, Tracy

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• It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Stars, War, Player

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• After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

  Nicolaas Bloembergen

  War, Reading, Book

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• Whoa... don't go all Kramer on me!

  Glenn Beck

  "The Glenn Beck Program", November 21, 2006.

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