Duffy Quotes
I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They're clapping for the solos in the exact same way.
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I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
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I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.
