Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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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.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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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.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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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.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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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.
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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?
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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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.
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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.
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You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
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Honour to Agamemnon is a thing. That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
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Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
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Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
