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
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
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
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner
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.
Rachel Sklar
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
Konrad Lorenz
It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.
Jeremy Paxman
I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.
Caster Semenya
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
David Allee
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
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
