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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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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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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Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
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I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.
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Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.
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I love singing.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
