Shawn Colvin Quotes

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.

Shawn Colvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessMagicKindWatchMusician

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

John Hancock

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I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Stephen Curry

LivePeopleWantUnderstandWayOwn

I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.

Sia

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In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

Mike Pence

HealthCareInsuranceWillCostAct

My whole thing is, you listen to the actor and help them bring out their best thing.

Jonathan Krisel

BestHelpYouActorListenOut

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

Dennis Haysbert

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Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Cobie Smulders

Rock StarRockAlwaysStarWanted

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Arianna Huffington

TimeInsuranceFallRulesClass

Since I am known as a 'rich' person, I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.

Aristotle Onassis

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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Anne Tyler

WillSomethingWorkingReadEver

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Willie Nelson

ParentsMeSmallTexasBornOld

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Peter Doig

SpacePaintingThinkYouComfortable

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