It so amazes you how much stage fright you get. I've been in front of cameras all my life, but that first tee, standing over that ball that's not even moving, it's scarier than doing a movie.


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Time is bunk.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL
To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD
Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF
Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Don't Panic.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS