Douglas Coupland Quotes
I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
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The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.
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Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
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I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.
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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
