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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The Braintrust developed organically out of the rare working relationship among the five men who led and edited the production of 'Toy Story' - John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, and Joe Ranft.
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The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God.
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Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
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Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
