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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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I've got to fight them away, and that's what we do every time fight night happens.
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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.
