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Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: December 23, 1955

Topics

Life Heart Poetry Memory People You

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

Woman Said Aggressive Miss Guy

On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.

Job Me Think Nobody Important First

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Andreas Schleicher

Better Skills Degrees Jobs Translate

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

Holiday Because Like Idols Singers

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Matthew McConaughey

Music Great Creative Me Tool Roles

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Side Forever Poets Novelists Existed

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

Team Basketball Better You Play Run

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Music School Back Lifestyle Rock

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

Mind Early Bed Done Sometimes Up

What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.

Work Time Day Sleep People Think

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Love Fear Future Trust People Face

Here in Washington State, I've supported efforts to provide our law enforcement with the proper training and resources required to meet their changing and demanding needs of their job. In doing so, I feel that the community and the law enforcement relationship will gratefully benefit from a renewed sense of responsibility and accountability.

Relationship Community Responsibility

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