Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre -
I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
Imelda May -
I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
Om Puri -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
Oliver St. John
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
Nadia Giosia -
My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
Uzo Aduba -
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton -
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
Kate McKinnon -
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
R. Lee Ermey -
The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
Ted Sarandos -
Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
Vincent Cassel -
Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
Maelle Gavet -
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
Taylor Schilling -
I'm the Vampire Lestat. Remember me? The vampire who became a super rock star, the one who wrote the autobiography? The one with the blond hair and the blue eyes, and the insatiable desire for visibility and fame? You remember. first line
Anne Rice -
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
Jim Hightower -
If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.
Douglas Coupland