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.Carol Ann Duffy
Quotes to Explore
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
Adam Lambert -
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.
Harland Williams -
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
Gary Cole -
Oakland kids are always the best.
Zendaya
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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.
Patrick Leahy -
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel -
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.
M. J. Rose -
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
J. R. Martinez -
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer -
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes
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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.
Farrah Fawcett -
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
G. Willow Wilson -
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.
Sam Graves -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
Wayne Rogers
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I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
Colm Feore -
I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.
Pamela Druckerman -
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
N. T. Wright -
A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
La'Porsha Renae -
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
Penelope Lively -
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.
Carol Ann Duffy