Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me… Just the other night she called me from a hotel.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.
