I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.
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LAURIE COLWIN Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by. LAURIE COLWIN I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, b... LAURIE COLWIN Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even ver... LAURIE COLWIN The sharing of food is the basis of social life. LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen... LAURIE COLWIN We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. LAURIE COLWIN We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at ... LAURIE COLWIN I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare... LAURIE ANDERSON I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ... HUGH LAURIE Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be... HUGH LAURIE I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are cha... LAURIE GRAHAM Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ... HUGH LAURIE Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me ab... LAURIE PENNY I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. HUGH LAURIE I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft... HUGH LAURIE Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs. LAURIE GRAHAM When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you we... LAURIE SIMMONS I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories ar... LAURIE GRAHAM In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-coo... LAURIE GRAHAM Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-... LAURIE ANDERSON