Douglas Coupland Quotes
I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.
Quotes to Explore
-
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
-
When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
-
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
-
My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
-
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
-
I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
-
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
-
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
-
I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
-
I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
-
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
-
I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
-
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
-
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
-
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
-
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
-
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
-
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
-
I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
-
If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
-
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
-
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.
-
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
-
I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.
