Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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I think you're working and learning until you die.
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I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
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Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
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Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
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I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
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Music is my hustle.
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Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
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It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport." That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
