Douglas Coupland Quotes
Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
Quotes to Explore
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
