"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales"

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Carol Ann Duffy

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fairy Tale Quotes

“The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.”

Source : Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”
“The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.”
“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
“Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.”
“If you can look up, you can get up.”
“I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors. Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.”

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“I have been singing since I was kid.”
“About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.”

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