Laurie Colwin Quotes

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

Topics

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I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

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I'm a takeout kind of girl. Whole Foods prepares most of my meals.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Angelina Jolie

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The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

John Quelch

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'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Stefanie Powers

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When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

Roxane Gay

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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

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You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.

Michael Winter

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My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Joshua Chamberlain

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Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

Jonathan Demme

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I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

Alice Sebold

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