Douglas Coupland Quotes
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.
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You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.
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As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.
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War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
