Laurie Colwin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
-
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
-
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
-
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
-
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
-
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
-
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
-
I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
-
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
-
I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
-
You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
-
I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
-
Petty laws breed great crimes.
-
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
-
Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.
-
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
-
Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
-
Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
-
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
