Douglas Coupland Quotes
Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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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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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
