Douglas Coupland Quotes
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I can do whatever I want.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
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Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
