Douglas Coupland Quotes
Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.
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For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
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Defenders must be careful yet decisive when taking action.
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I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.
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Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
