Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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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.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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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.'
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
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Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence me round, Till I possess my soul again; Till free my thoughts before me roll, Not chafed by hourly false control!
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If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.
