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.
Barry Corbin -
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.
Carlene Carter -
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.
Jacki Weaver -
Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
Gary Ackerman -
I think you're working and learning until you die.
Joanne Rowling -
I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
Carly Pope
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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.
Taliesin -
Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
Iain Banks -
Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott -
Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
Ai Weiwei -
I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
Katie Finneran -
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
Kirk Douglas
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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.
Alex Berenson -
Music is my hustle.
Pitbull -
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt -
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
Bob Odenkirk -
I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
Javier Bardem -
I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
Mark Zuckerberg
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Moliere -
A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.
Chris Wallace -
I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.
Nicholas Stoller -
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.
Jaime Ray Newman -
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
Douglas Coupland