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
  • Family
  • Love
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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• 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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  • American
  • Community

• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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  • New York

• 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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  • Money
  • Done

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

  

  Garrison Keillor
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  • You
  • Gift

• 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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  • Game
  • Cool

• 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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  • Mind
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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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• My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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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
  • People
  • Life
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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 marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

  

  Jack Roy
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• I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
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  • Philosophy
  • Too Much

• I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
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  • Help
  • Night

• I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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  • Do The Right Thing

• 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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