Judy Collins Quotes

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

Judy Collins

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• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Singing
  • Forever
  • Daily

• My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... where I could challenge myself to do gritty stuff - a homeless guy or just some guy with a lot going on who's got problems. It's more fun to do as an actor.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Political

• He watched her. He took his time.Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?Perhaps.Perhaps not.Who can tell?

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Time

• I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Movie
  • Respect
  • Brain

• Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

  

  Maureen O'Hara

• We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Up

• I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Shopping

• You have to make time for fans, and you really need to appreciate them. You have to remember that if they weren't buying, playing, or streaming your music, you wouldn't be in the charts, and people wouldn't be hearing your music.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

  

  Edward Grey
  • Great

• You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • World

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I absolutely love Scotland. I'm always happy there.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Happy

• If the children of a group's founder are to take over that group, they need the endorsement of society.

  

  Lee Kun-hee
  • Children
  • Society

• Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

  

  Jerry O'Connell
  • Football
  • Professional

• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Law
  • Years
  • Make

• Alas, despite wing implants, feathers and wax, and carnal associations with swans, we will never grow wings. Alas, any true flight we make will always be externally assisted. Alas, the best we can do is fall and believe ourselves flying.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Believe
  • True
  • Fall

• The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

  

  Judy Collins