Douglas Coupland Quotes
'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
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Vicky Donor or Madras Caf, John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.
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I've got a great wife, a great life.
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'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'
