Famous Quotes

Quotes by Duffy

• 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.
• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
• I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
• I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
• I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
• I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
• I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
• 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 an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
• I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.
• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
• In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
• It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.