Douglas Coupland Quotes
'A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.'
Quotes to Explore
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn't seen anything like her on TV - ever.
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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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'A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.'
