Douglas Hodge Quotes
To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.
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That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food unrefrigerated.
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To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
