Laurie Colwin Quotes
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
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I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.
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We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.
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Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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I fantasized doing something like 'Wait, Wait.'
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Wenn du einen vielbetretenen Weg lange gehst, so gehst du ihn endlich allein.
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Some of the best things...take time.
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Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.
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Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
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I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
