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Quotes by Doug Wright

“We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters are predicting it will head off to the northeast, but if it turns our way we will have very little time to notify residents.”

“The report clearly disproves the common misconception that women are the only sufferers of fertility issues. With the next generation facing increasing pressure as a result of declining fertility and mortality rates, its only fair that men accept their responsibility and change their lifestyles now before its too late.”

“help us to be the hands of Jesus extended.”

“I teased Geoffrey. I told him he had become my id, ... Every antisocial thought I ever had, he was gleefully acting out on screen.”

“This is my first movie, so its pretty overwhelming to see all those characters that were living in my own fevered little brain suddenly 30 feet tall,”

“I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so extreme, ... I found myself asking, Wow, does this have any value? Does this merit a place on bookshelves? And I thought, if he could unnerve me so completely, then maybe hed be a worthwhile subject for drama. Maybe hed be the kind of figure about whom I could write a parable about free speech that made liberals and conservatives equally nervous.”

“There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-mannered, deeply Presbyterian mother staring back at me from my imagination, looking at me with her lips pursed like, Douglas, what do you think youre doing? ... But if youre tackling a figure like Sade, you have a moral obligation to be true to his spirit.”

“I think hes a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, ... I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I dont think any writer before or since had touched bottom in the human psyche. I think Sade goes there and goes there relentlessly.”

“I think hes spectacular and volcanic.”

“I Am My Own Wife,”