Douglas Coupland Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
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We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
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The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
