Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann -
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas -
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I always wanted pink hair.
Rachel McAdams -
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Nate Silver -
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Rachel Weisz -
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz -
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
Zac Brown Band -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
Laura Dern
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'Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it'
Kid Cudi -
The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
Alex Pareene -
No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
Louisa May Alcott -
So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
Jeff Bridges -
You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte -
You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
Douglas Coupland