Laurie Colwin Quotes
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Every idea has its time.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.
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It's how I've lived my life. You show up, work hard, and be humble.
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I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
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We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
