Douglas Coupland Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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I'm cranky.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
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If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. ... For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before-free time.
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Language is such a technology.
