Douglas Coupland Quotes
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.
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I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.
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I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.
