Shawn Colvin Quotes

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.

John Gurdon

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New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.

John Waters

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In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Townsend Harris

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On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

Travis Fimmel

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I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Robin Ince

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When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Robin Marantz Henig

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We endorse Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos' vision of 'millions of people living and working in space' - this is the heart and soul of the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.

Bruce Pittman

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I prefer to stay with Likud. I think I have to be in the party I managed to build.

Ariel Sharon

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I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

Anthony Browne

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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt

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Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

Sydney Pollack

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I'm a huge Obama supporter.

Richard Belzer

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