Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Jerry Rice

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Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

John M. Grunsfeld

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It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

John Hughes

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Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

Simon Sinek

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Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

Tom Selleck

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You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Robert E. Lee

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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Michael King

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After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

Jay DeMarcus

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I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

Dennis Haysbert

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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Douglas Coupland

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The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

Douglas Brinkley

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Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Che Guevara

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