Douglas Coupland Quotes
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
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Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
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I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.
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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
