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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I use the Clairsonic Cleansing system to wash my face three times a week.
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Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
