#douglas

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#course #douglas #going #had #happen

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#clever #could #did #douglas #fiction

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

#day #douglas #fighting #guy #his

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #black #capitalist #center #century

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#douglas #films #i #made #three

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

— Erin Morgenstern

#adult #books #douglas #fun #get

She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had never seen her equal, not even in Paris. He was thinking she would make the perfect mistress, but at the same time, he wonder if she would accept such a role. Beautiful, arousing, and complicated meant nothing but trouble.-Alysandir ↗

— Elaine Coffman

#isobella-douglass #beauty

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#call #campbell #douglas #got #guthrie