Shawn Colvin Quotes

When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

Jo Brand

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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

Jeremy Bentham

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Being so doopity! It's awesome. And I think it's just one of the reasons that people should get hitched on with the WWE Network. It's more than just these network specials like 'WrestleMania' and like 'SummerSlam'. It's programming geared for the WWE universe.

John Cena

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You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.

Trish Goff

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First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

Rochelle Aytes

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My game plan - doesn't matter who I play - is to play on my terms, to control as much as I can, to try to get control of the centre of the court, to try to dictate and make them move, to be their director rather than letting them impose their game on me.

Milos Raonic

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My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

Lucy Punch

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I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.

Jonathan Tisch

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I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville

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My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Claire Denis

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