Douglas Coupland Quotes
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
-
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
-
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
-
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
-
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
-
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
-
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
-
I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
-
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
-
I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
-
There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
-
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
-
Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
-
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
-
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
-
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
-
If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
-
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
-
I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.
-
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?
-
I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.
-
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
