Episode 694 - Quinn Cummings

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Writer Quinn Cummings does not let her Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress define her. After all, she was only 10 when it happened. Quinn tells Marc why she rejected acting after her early success and why she prefers to write. They also talk about homeschooling, avoiding marriage, and how Quinn became a patent-holding inventor.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fucker is, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what's happening?
0:14.9	Alright, Mark Maren, this is WTF, this is my podcast.
0:18.7	Welcome to it, if you're new to it.
0:20.6	For those of you returning, it's nice to have you back.
0:24.0	My guest today on the show is Quinn Cummings, the author.
0:28.9	She has several books to her name, a very funny memoirs, notes from the underwire adventures
0:34.9	from my awkward and lovely life and the year of learning dangerously and pet sounds.
0:42.1	But she was also kind of the fact about her, the weird historical fact, she was nominated
0:48.4	for the best actress and a supporting role for the Goodbye Girl in 1978 and she was about
0:57.0	11 years old.
1:00.2	So that happened.
1:02.6	But her writing is funny and she's interesting and quirky and intelligent and it was a really
1:07.8	nice to talk to her.
1:10.2	Before I get too preoccupied with whatever nonsense is going on in my mind, let me do
1:15.1	a couple of Mark related, me related, no third person, Mark Maren related plugs.
1:20.3	Friday April 8th, Mission Creek Festival at the Inglard Theater in Iowa City, Iowa,
1:25.3	Saturday April 9th at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska and Sunday April 10th
1:31.2	at the Arvest Bank Theater at the Midland in Kansas City, Missouri.
1:36.5	That one feels, I feel the weight of that one.
1:39.7	It might be the weight of some absence.
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