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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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 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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I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
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It looks like we will have a bipolar reality.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
