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Carol Ann Duffy

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

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"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

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"In silence we are loving and kind, in a crowd we become blind."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments."

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"The best things in life are the things that we cannot buy with money."

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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."

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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
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"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
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"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
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"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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