Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthBeginningCreativeSandTrying

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

Maya Hawke

FarmerAlwaysActProfessorEnglish

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

John Keegan

AdmireMilitaryVirtuesEvenShould

What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.

Tom Graves

LeadershipGreatWelcomeIdeasOur

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

David Slade

ToughFilmmakingBeastSuspenseReal

'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

Chelsea Lankes

WordsPeopleSomeoneYouConnection

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PeopleFeelingHumanAlwaysLead

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

StrengthMenYouBeliefEverWhile

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

Phillipa Soo

CharacterMeSomeoneTryingLook

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Sylvia Plath

WomenTableSeeHeadI SeeAlmost

I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.

Sergio Ermotti

EndBackOfficeBankingFront

Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

EmployeesInsuranceOfferingHigher

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Nick Rahall

GreatDepressionWarWorldColdNow

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