Douglas Coupland Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
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I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.
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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
Ford Frick -
Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
