Douglas Coupland Quotes
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
