Douglas Coupland Quotes
Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'Douglas Coupland
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard -
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
Irina Shayk -
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
Daniel Alarcon
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
Oscar Pistorius -
Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
Kapil Sharma -
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray -
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy -
Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
Laetitia Casta -
I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
Karen Handel
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom -
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
Umberto Eco -
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov -
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
Calvin Klein
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
Hans Blix -
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune -
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
Joanna Scott -
Honestly, if I'm around people I like, I can do nothing and have a good time. But when I have downtime, I like to go get a burger.
Lucky Blue Smith -
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'
Douglas Coupland