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 judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
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You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.
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What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'
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Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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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.
