Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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.
Nancy Werlin -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Carine Roitfeld -
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori -
I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
Tamsin Egerton -
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos
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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.
Lance Armstrong -
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.
Zach Woods -
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.
Karin Slaughter -
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.
Kalpana Chawla -
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.
Callie Khouri -
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
Daniel Craig
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
Manoj Bhargava -
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
Irving Langmuir -
I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a message. I was thinking what message I can give to the people of the country at this juncture.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Jung believed that alchemy is about the transmutation of of the mind and the discovery of the self. Inevitably, he saw the male and female elements of the prima materia - the king and queen of alchemy - as the animus and anima; this seemed to indicate the (sic) alchemy is about psychological processes.
Colin Wilson
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
Adam Derek Scott -
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin -
I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.
Elodie Yung -
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Janine Turner -
I used to hate playing Seattle shows.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
Douglas Coupland