Douglas Wood Quotes

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Security
  • Against
  • Airport

• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Acting
  • Show

• We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Amazing

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Sister
  • Wedding

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Know
  • Me
  • Doors

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Proud
  • Yourself
  • Victory

• I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Believe
  • Love
  • May

• Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Action
  • Justice

• Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Years
  • Succeed
  • Forty

• It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Community
  • Action

• My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Character
  • Involved
  • Betting

• Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Want
  • Choose
  • Now

• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Changes
  • Playground
  • Messing

• When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • People
  • Looks
  • Cycles

• we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Suffer
  • Blackbirds
  • Mosquitoes

• I try to eat as healthy as possible and try to put some weight on.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

  

  Douglas Wood