Shawn Colvin Quotes

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeThinkYouWayRecoveryStay

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

Joe Garcia

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I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Andrea Arnold

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Winning is everything.

Jeff Rich

WinningEverything

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

Michael Biehn

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Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey

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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Jose Mujica

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I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

HopeGreatPeopleMeThinkingBack

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Sylvia Plath

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If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

Sergio Marchionne

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