Douglas Coupland Quotes

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

Douglas Coupland

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• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  

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• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

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• Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

  

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• I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

  

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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

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• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

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• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  

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• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

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• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

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• We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

  

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• Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

  

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• When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

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• I'm not cynical.

  

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• All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

  

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• Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

  

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• I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.

  

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• To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

  

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• It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • True
  • Blue