Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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God does arithmetic.
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This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.
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I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
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I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
