Duff Quotes & Sayings

It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy. — Haylie Duff

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous. — Anne-Marie Duff

Well look, it seems as though you do have some experience now at least of threefold bliss, luminosity, and emptiness that is such an important feature of the first yoga. On top of that, you are in an excellent position, having had introduction from myself and having all the things on your side that you have going for you. But look out! Your mind is probably not strong enough yet that you can go wandering into town, as a lot of yogi-types would, drinking liquor and womanizing, and trying to incorporate that into your practice. Instead, and until you have advanced far enough that you can actually take these things onto the path, you should be practicising!

- Gampopa to Phagmo Drupa

(Duff T. Gampopa Teaches Essence Mahamudra: Interviews with His Heart Disciples, Dusum Khyenpa and Others. Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2012. Pp. xxviii-xxix) — Tony Duff

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. — Hilary Duff

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. — Hilary Duff

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut. — Duff McKagan

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on. — Sara Paxton

Healthy love, I always think, is ... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings. — Anne-Marie Duff

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. — Hilary Duff

I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family. — Hilary Duff

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution. — Anne-Marie Duff

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it. — Hilary Duff

Another way you can be nicer to yourself is by replacing some of that asshole language that you use toward yourself in your head. — Robert Duff

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons. — Anne-Marie Duff

(We wrote "Sweet Child o' Mine" later, and the "where do we go now" coda of that song actually was just sort of tacked on, which is one of the reasons we didn't anticipate it being a hit - or even a single, for that matter.) — Duff McKagan

No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy! — Hilary Duff

The point is, scientists have proven that every group of friends has a weak link, a DUFF. And girls respond well to guys who associate with their DUFFs."
"Crackheads can call themselves scientists now? That's news to me. — Kody Keplinger

I hated Valentine's Day even before I was aware of my Duff status. Honestly, I didn't even understand why it was a holiday. Really, it was just an excuse for girls to whine about being lonely and for guys to worm their way into getting laid. I found it materialistic, indulgent, and, with all of the chocolate, completely unhealthy. — Kody Keplinger

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have. — Anne-Marie Duff

When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. I've never taken a loan - ever. And we're doing this expansion just like everything we've done in this bakery as we've grown. If we weren't able to afford paying for something cash, we didn't buy it. — Duff Goldman

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. — Duff Goldman

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. — Hilary Duff

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress. — Anne-Marie Duff

fingers into a beak and flapped it open and shut: talk, talk. "You never know. If you pick him up, he'll just call his lawyer. You might lose your only chance to talk to him." "No, it's better we pick him up. After that, you can sweet-talk him, Duff. That's what you're good at." "You sure?" "We can't have people saying we didn't push hard enough on this guy." The comment was off key, and a doubtful expression crossed Duffy's face. We had always made it a rule not to give a shit how things looked or what people thought. A prosecutor's judgment is supposed to be insulated from politics. "You know what I mean, Paul. This is the first credible — William Landay

There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them. — Hilary Duff

There is a piece of you that is still fighting this and I want to add a spark to that little ember and help you create a roaring fire of depression slaying badassery. You may feel numb and zombie-like, but you have not given up. We are still in this, friend. Let's get you back on track. In — Robert Duff

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz ... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that. — Anne-Marie Duff

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States. — Duff Green

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you. — Hilary Duff

My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.' — Hilary Duff

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime. — Haylie Duff

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try — Hilary Duff

Your heart ... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it. — Anne-Marie Duff

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable. — Marina Leigh Duff

Breathe in for 4 counts (you can count faster or slower depending on comfort), hold that breath for 7, and then release for 8. — Robert Duff

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general. — Hilary Duff

My silver iris necklace, like my father said have a meaning the petals represent faith, valor and wisdom. — Hilary Duff

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us. — Hilary Duff

Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A," said the Bursar.
The table fell silent.
"Did anyone understand that?" said Ridcully.
The Bursar was not technically insane. He had passed through the rapids of insanity som time previously, and was now sculling around in some peaceful pool on the other side. He was quite often coherent, although not by normal human standards. — Terry Pratchett

People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you. — Robert Duff

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. — Duff Goldman

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way. — Anne-Marie Duff

Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again. — Hilary Duff

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music. — Hilary Duff

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist? - Clea Raymond — Hilary Duff

When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react? — Hilary Duff

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing. — Anne-Marie Duff

I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy. — Kat Duff

I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger. — Hilary Duff

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone. — Hilary Duff

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story — Hilary Duff

Slash was already in a league of his own and watching him play guitar was a "holy shit" moment. — Duff McKagan

Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes. — Busy Philipps

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. — Anne-Marie Duff

I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile. — Hilary Duff

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy. — Hilary Duff

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that. — Hilary Duff

Fortunately I never came to enjoy the effect of heroin for its own sake, but floating away on a silk pillow was infinitely nicer than grinding my teeth in a drunken, paranoid stupor at the end of a coke binge. — Duff McKagan

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned. — Duff Goldman

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. — Haylie Duff

(we had added an unruly pug somewhere along the way) — Duff McKagan

Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy! — Duff McKagan

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do. — Hilary Duff

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration. — Dana Rohrabacher

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds. — Hilary Duff

Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores. — Ann Coulter

I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up. — James Nesbitt

The only difference between magic and science . . . is time. — Sue Duff

Place pain in a steel box and let it float away," Benny would say. "Pain will always be there - it's how you deal with it that matters. — Duff McKagan

For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with. — Anne-Marie Duff

There she was, bundled into sweats and a long wool coat five sizes too large for her, her curls hidden by a massive gray hat with earflaps-a look that could have been pulled off effectively only by someone in 1930s Siberia...or a supremely angular male model. — Hilary Duff

Dreams were the brain's way of sorting out things left unsettled in our waking lives — Hilary Duff

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff

Duff's little moans traveled up her spine, made her head buzz. And another thought grabbed hold: She was doing this. She had the power to do this. THat she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing. — Libba Bray

I'm a big Hilary Duff person! My family loves her. — Miley Cyrus

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. — Duff Goldman

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy. — Shia Labeouf

" ... we're all fucking Duffs."
(Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
"I'm not the Duff," Wesley said confidently.
"That's because you don't have friends." (Bianca)
"Oh. Right." — Kody Keplinger

took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play. — Duff McKagan

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through. — Hilary Duff

I shook my head. "Don't bother making excuses," I said. "Don't waste your time because, the fact is, I am the Duff. But so is everyone else in the world. We're all fucking Duffs."
"I'm not the Duff," Wesley said confidently.
"That's because you don't have friends."
"Oh. Right. — Kody Keplinger

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper

The Zankli Sacred Prayer: Oh God, I bring before you your children you have gifted with the light. Bring unto them what is yours to give, your to provide, and yours to understand. Bless them with the joy of goodness, and deliver unto them longevity, wisdom and foresight. — M.J. Duff

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama. — Hilary Duff

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent. — Hilary Duff

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom. — Hilary Duff

Life is not a journey to the grave With the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways Thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride! — Duff McKagan

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath. — Duff Green

I had to get back to dealing with facts. One fact was that something bizarre was going on, but I'd be far more likely to find an explanation in a modern book on string theory than in an ancient tome on the spirit world. — Hilary Duff

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall. — Hilary Duff

Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And — Duff McKagan

You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too. — Hilary Duff

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie. — Haylie Duff

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. — Duff Cooper

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly. — Tom Duff

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. — James Nesbitt

we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience. — Duff McKagan

The eyes are the windows to the soul — Hilary Duff

We had a tour bus! We had a couple of real hotel rooms! And catering! Fuck, yes! — Duff McKagan