Douglas Coupland Quotes
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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We had been told that it was not possible to leave the E.U., and the U.K. has just demonstrated that, when the people want it, we can set up the conditions to exit the E.U.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
