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.'
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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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 always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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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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Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.
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I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
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Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?
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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.'
