When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.


Illeana Douglas

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DOUGLAS ADAMS
After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient...
DOUGLAS ENGELBART
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
DOUGLAS HURD
I've never felt better.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ...
DOUGLAS LURTAN
The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe...
DOUGLAS EVERETT
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS