Duffy Quotes

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

In all dying our ages are the same.

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

The stars are filming us for no one.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.

I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

all deaths are one's own.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.