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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: About Advances Anything Better Caged Care Dead Dog Douglas He How Judge Least Lion Living Oppose Slavery Than Work

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Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

~Adrian Lyne

Topics: Badly Business Critically Douglas Eventually Film Foxes Interesting Interesting Thing Lot Man Me Michael Movie Next Offered Other Producing Star Thing Things Too Tried Which I Tried

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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Allowance Back Douglas Grammar Grammar School Midst Movies Sails Saturday School Ships Used Years 1920S

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I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

~Catherine Zeta-Jones

Topics: Actor Douglas Happen Just Life Love Lucky Meant Met Michael My Life Oscars Producer Really Shelf Think Two

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If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.

~Christophe Gans

Topics: Ability Amazes Body Buster Douglas Effects Grow Human Human Body Keaton Look Movies Never Old Only Physical Special Special Effects Still Today You

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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Age Big Decide Douglas Early Early Age King Kurt Like Made Me Old Phase Something Stephen King Ten Ten Years Through Very Very Early Age Wanted Were Who Writers Years

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I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Always Being Douglas Extraordinary Introduced Tony

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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

~Ed Harris

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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

~Erin Morgenstern

Topics: Adult Books Douglas Fun Get Love Some Think I Think

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On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.

~Evangeline Lilly

Topics: Douglas Hank Michael Office Played Rubber Stamp Took

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