Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Law
  • Laugh

• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Relationship

• I believe women are the glue of everything.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Women
  • I Believe

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  

  Sam Snead
  • People
  • Death
  • Sports

• Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Greatest

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Violence

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • School
  • Religion
  • Ethics

• I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Good
  • Very
  • Good Intentions

• It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Would
  • Copy
  • Chapel

• When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe

• I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: 'We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.' I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Long
  • Words
  • Teacher

• A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Comedy

• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Work
  • Science
  • Fall

• Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • People
  • Done
  • Heaven

• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  

  Geena Davis
  • Different
  • Political
  • Lawyer

• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Different
  • Best
  • Audience

• I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff