Douglas Coupland Quotes
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I'm quite contradictory - a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me. And I'll find the one thing in the room that's my boyfriend's, and complain about him leaving it out.
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I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
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And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.
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I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
