Douglas Coupland Quotes
Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.
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One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
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That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
