Douglas Wood Quotes
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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We need to examine hatred on a global perspective because hatred is everywhere, and it does not matter who you are: you can be a victim of it anywhere and anytime.
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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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On the Coast of CoromandelWhere the early pumpkins blow,In the middle of the woodsLived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.Two old chairs, and half a candle,-One old jug without a handle,-These were all his worldly goods.
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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
