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Time & Perspective Quote by Lynn Redgrave

"I find love from time to time"

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"I find love from time to time" lands with the quiet defiance of someone who refuses the fairytale without becoming cynical. Lynn Redgrave’s phrasing is doing a lot of work in a small space: not "I have love", not "I am loved", but "I find" it - active, searching, a little amused at the idea that love is supposed to arrive on schedule. The line treats love less like a destiny and more like a discovery, something you stumble onto in the midst of living.

The kicker is "from time to time". It softens the statement and sharpens it at once. Love is real, but it’s intermittent; it comes in seasons, not as a permanent state. For an actress - someone whose career is built on inhabiting emotions on cue, under lights, for strangers - that restraint reads as earned. It suggests someone who’s seen how easily intensity can be manufactured, how often romance gets confused with performance. Redgrave isn’t selling love as a lifelong badge; she’s acknowledging it as a recurring event, a human weather pattern.

There’s also a subtle refusal of shame. "From time to time" can imply gaps, solitude, failed relationships - the stuff culture loves to treat as personal deficiency, especially for women in the public eye. Redgrave flips it: the gaps aren’t failures, they’re part of the rhythm. The intent feels less like confession than calibration, a public-facing sentence that protects private complexity while still letting tenderness leak through.

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Lynn Redgrave (March 8, 1943 - May 2, 2010) was a Actress from United Kingdom.

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