Douglas Coupland Quotes
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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'The Watch' is first and foremost a comedy, but since I got to shoot the film using elements from the sci-fi genre, I wanted to make sure the alien didn't look goofy. I got to make a real alien that looks dangerous. That was a big plus for me because I got to do something really fun and cool.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.
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Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
