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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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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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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I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
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I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'
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I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
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My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
