Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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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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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
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I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
