Douglas Hodge Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I'm still me even after all that's happened.
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Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.
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I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again.
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I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me. I liked the way he kept his right foot forward, being a left-handed hitter, and his left foot back. That gave him more body and shoulder power than the average hitter has.
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There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.
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as long as it's across-the-board . . . so that everybody feels it equally.
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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.
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I haven't watched telly for years.
