Donald Wills Douglas Quotes
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
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I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.
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I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
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Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?
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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
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When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
