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Shawn Colvin Quotes

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1958

Topics

Music Song Someone Trying Sitting

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Jessica Savitch

Marriage Children Job Saying Early

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

Andy Andrews

Life Society Free Long You Apple

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Mike Simpson

Small New Show Percent Net Jobs

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

Mitch McConnell

Future Science Job Now Try Protect

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Jules Verne

Great India Land Miles Spread Knows

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Janis Ian

Life Best Yourself Better Learn You

I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.

Jon Jones

Cool Rich Kind Never Always Kids

I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting it if you just look at your cell phone.

Derek Blasberg

Time Men Cell Phone Jewelry Think

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Anthony Trollope

Great Fault Politicians Something

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Tim Berners-Lee

Time People World Internet Now Tool

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

Richard Hammond

Love Car Heart Red Blues First

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

Marjane Satrapi

I Am World Hell Smoking Want Quit