Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

Carol Ann Duffy

• Fear

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

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• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

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• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

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• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

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• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  

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• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

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• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  

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• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

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• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
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• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

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• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

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• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

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• Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

  

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• There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.

  

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• I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

  

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• I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
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• When you are in a place of fear, everything in you will want to run, but I challenge you to run to it. It will build your confident trust in Him when you see that the very place that fear is, is the same place that fear will be conquered. Be encouraged by what God did for Moses, Joshua, Daniel… and what He has done for me time and time again. When you let God lead, you might find yourself in some rather scary places, but remain steadfast in Him and confident that He will bring provision and fight on your behalf. It’s in those times that miracles happen and nations change.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • God
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• One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Fear