Douglas Wood Quotes
Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
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Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.
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About the 'movers and the shakers' of the government These people are the first line of defense when it comes to the terrorist threat, but the word 'shit' makes them cry. 'Why didn't he say poopie?! Why didn't he say poopie?!'
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In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
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I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.
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Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
