Douglas Wood Quotes
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I have a great office.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I work very hard at my game.
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I grew up in New York.
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We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.
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I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
