Douglas Coupland Quotes

Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)

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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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• 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?

  

  Nate Berkus
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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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• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

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• I feel so much better at 170, man.

  

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• It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .

  

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• The human genome itself is just a parts list. The human genome with the chimp genome tells us how these parts have changed.

  

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• I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

  

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• There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.

  

  Jim Flaherty
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• Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Money