Douglas Coupland Quotes

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

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• My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

  

  Brown Campbell
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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • U.S.

• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

  

  Tahj Mowry
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• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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  • Community

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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  • Done

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  

  Wavy Gravy
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• I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

  

  Rain
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• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
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• About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

  

  Sam Yagan
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  • Trying

• Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

  

  Gary Calamar
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• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important.

  

  Zendaya
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• I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

  

  Diego Luna
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• I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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