Douglas Coupland Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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This life is a process of learning.
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For Nature is a cunning nurse. She gives us lollipops all the way, and when the lollipop of hope and the lollipop of achievement are done, she gently inserts in our toothless gums the lollipop of remembrance. And with that pleasant vanity we are soothed to sleep.
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What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.
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I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.
