Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EnergyGotJustProseAny

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that's kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you're getting to know someone, it starts off slowly.

Andrew Haigh

LifeTimeThinkReachSomeoneYou

'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent.

Stephen Rodrick

SomeoneIllusionPrivacyNowScent

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

Tricia Helfer

MeThinkTryingNeverOverGone

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

Michele Bachmann

SometimesTeachersMostMarvelous

I've just stopped worrying about what the game plan looks like, how many targets am I going to have in a game, all of the stuff that would distract me when having fun out there on the football field. It's allowed me to be less stressed and enjoy my teammates more and go out there with a loose mentality and have more fun.

Doug Baldwin

FootballFunMeHaving FunGameGo

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

Clive Barker

LiveAgeStyleDayCoolNight

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

Anthony Foxx

FutureTimeYouLookCountryCreate

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Allison Tolman

CharacterInterestingPlayDoneGet

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

LifeWorkTimeMy LifeProblemNow

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

Peter York

LibraryHouseImportantMoreParade

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Paul Westerberg

TruthGreatSongWillWriteSingle

You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.

Richard Linklater

SportsGrowYouQuitGrow UpUp

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