Douglas Coupland Quotes
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
Douglas Coupland
Quotes to Explore
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Iain Glen
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Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
Kate Middleton
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
Ed Sullivan
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George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
Bill Medley
The Righteous Brothers
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Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
Jerome Charyn
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I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.
Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Graham
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Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.
Mekhi Phifer
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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
Douglas Coupland
