Douglas Coupland Quotes
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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I care about Bahrain.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Art must not serve might.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
