Douglas Coupland Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
Irrfan Khan -
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
Victoria Moran -
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
Tao Lin -
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz -
All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
Quavo Migos -
I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Fay Weldon -
I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
Oscar Isaac -
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
Adam McKay -
If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
Pablo Sandoval -
You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.
Daniel Cormier
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
Carey Mulligan -
When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
Flula Borg -
I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
Maluma -
And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.
Edie Falco -
I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
Zach Gilford -
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry McMurtry
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It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
Christopher Darden -
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
Bernadette Devlin -
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
Irwin Shaw -
I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
Adam Carolla -
I have always kept my beauty regime super simple, but I would say discovering you could use coconut oil to take off eye-makeup remover has been a game changer.
Ella Woodward -
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Douglas Coupland