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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I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.
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I'm really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it's like, 'No, I swear, I'm wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!'
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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.
