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Duffy Quotes

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: welsh
Birth: June 23, 1984

Topics

Family Together Memory People First

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.

Jim McGovern

Home Time War Thought Fighting Stop

I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City' did to my neighborhood.

Joe Mantello

City Friends Sex Neighborhood Been

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

John Corey Whaley

People Growing Up Small You Place

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Angelina Jolie

Alone Fly Place Air Everything Up

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

Jeff Nichols

Waiting People Game Think You Bad

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

Andy Grammer

Good Time Song Think First Time

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

Spike Jonze

Money Compromise Someone Never Going

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Michelle Obama

Power Democracy Think Reality Enough

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

Josh Gondelman

Romantic Strong Relationships Big

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

Donna Karan

Mother Daughter Job Think Better

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Donnie Yen

Best Young Director Got Film Japan

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art Adventure Where Sense Flourishes