Jan Piercy says that Hillary "does not waste time on regrets, does not waste time on ambivalence," and that "she is impatient with people who dwell on what might have been," for "to her it's a waste of time".
Women are so consumed with regretting their work-life choices, or making other women regret their work-life choices, that they spend little time on regretting other important things, like making stupid business decisions while you were an executive at a company that ended up crashing and burning, and contributing to the biggest economic meltdown this country has ever seen.
But I won't waste time on recriminations or regrets.
All of Paley's work is marked by heart, precision, and concern for others, and surges with real, messy life, and the way life, lived, actually makes us feel: outgunned, befriended, short on time, long on regret, so happy we can't stand it, so in love we become fools.
Other times, as on Regret, it sounds like Fugazi playing staticky bagpipes.
Restrict how much time you spend on regret.
But again, that's part of the philosophy - go with your instinct, and before you have time for regrets you're on to the next movie.
These songs, some more autobiographical than others, are really dreams in which Ms. Collins muses out loud on time, regret, death and renewal in an impressionistic fairy-tale language through which people and places flicker like shadows, lights and flashes of color.
Ann I regret wasting time on the self-pitying process of having regrets.
