Laurie Colwin Quotes
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.
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It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
