Donald Wills Douglas Quotes
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
Donald Wills Douglas
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
Valerie Plame
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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.
J. Anthony Lukas
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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.
Dan Brown
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
Omar Epps
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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.
Jack Kerouac
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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.
Zuleikha Robinson
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Camille Claudel
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
Basmah bint Saud
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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.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.
David Labrava
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My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been trampled by a horse in his youth and couldn't enlist. My mother was studying to be a nurse and, when war broke out, joined the Women's Army Corps without even telling her parents.
Marillyn Hewson
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson
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When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
Donald Wills Douglas
