Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.
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Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
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I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
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I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
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There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
