Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago

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As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

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I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Football has always been my great love. I slept with a ball - really! Even when I started going out with Bouchra - ouha! She must have thought, 'What's this...?'

Robin Van Persie

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Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

Roisin Murphy

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This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

Diane Greene

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The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Craig McCaw

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Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

William Petty

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Stephanie and I got married publicly on the beach, in front of friends and family, and the local police shut down the highway for us to cross the street back to my cousin's house. Cars backed up for miles, and everybody in town cheered.

Tig Notaro

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What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Timothy Noah

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California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

Nicolas Berggruen

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