Shawn Colvin Quotes

I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Joe R. Lansdale

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

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I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

Joely Fisher

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I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

Trey Anastasio

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A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

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I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.

DeRay Mckesson

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You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Dora Russell

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Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

Dean Cain

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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

Brit Marling

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I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

Anurag Kashyap

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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

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My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

Paula Poundstone

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