Douglas Coupland Quotes

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Mean

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Live
  • Living
  • Hanging

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • Healthy
  • Used

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Prince
  • Realize
  • Go

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Dream

• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Maximum

• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• Live by faith and not by fear.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • School
  • Tradition

• I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Up
  • World

• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Responsibility

• But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

  

  Donald Sutherland
  • Money

• I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Present