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Laurie Colwin Quotes

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Opinion Feel Guilty Done His

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

Jennifer Weiner

Work Persistence Day Yourself People

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

John Kricfalusi

Style Humor Hate Stand You Secret

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about or on a subject that appeals to me.

Beautiful Me Book Care Matter Paper

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

John Poindexter

Technology Believe Think Security Us

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Stephen Colbert

You Exist Extra Like Moderate

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.

People Feedback You React Virtue

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

Character People Reality Laugh You

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

I Am War Fashion Cold End Surprise

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

Heart Action Purple Never Once Zone

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

Live Day You Colorado Hospital Get

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

Family Kindness Patience Brother You

I'm fine with the life I have.

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