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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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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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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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.
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I feel so much better at 170, man.
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'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.
