Douglas Wood Quotes

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

Douglas Wood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 19, 1957

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Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

Joe Pesci

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Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

Michael Douglas

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More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

Amy Sedaris

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Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.

Martina Navratilova

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Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

Lisa Madigan

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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Joseph Brodsky

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I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

Demi Lovato

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I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

Norton Juster

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I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Marion Barry

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