Douglas Wood Quotes
Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.
Quotes to Explore
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
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I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.
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My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
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I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
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When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.
