Douglas Coupland Quotes
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.
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The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.
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At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
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My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
