Douglas Wood Quotes
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Quotes to Explore
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
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Our approach to continuously investing in the scales and capabilities of our people helps us meet the needs of our clients and enhances our ability to attract the very best talent in our industry.
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There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
