Douglas Wood Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.
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If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.
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Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.
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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
