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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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same 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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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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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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I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.
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When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.
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I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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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.
