Douglas Coupland Quotes
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Quotes to Explore
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
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As we meditate on the undeserved mercy of God in forgiving our sins, we will freely grant forgiveness and kindness to our husbands and children.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
