Douglas Coupland Quotes

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Douglas Coupland

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

  

  Banksy
  • Love
  • Way
  • Capitalism

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • May
  • Movie
  • Today

• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Life Is A

• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciation

• The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Different
  • Done
  • Why

• You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Influences

• The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Man
  • Hand

• In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Play
  • Calm

• I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Think
  • Change
  • Politics

• I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Love
  • Home
  • History

• His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Life
  • Book
  • Air

• Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Life
  • Great

• Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

  

  Douglas Coupland