Douglas Coupland Quotes
Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
Douglas Coupland
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
Taye Diggs
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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.'
Zack Snyder
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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.
Sam Claflin
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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!
Tanith Lee
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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.
M. J. Hyland
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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.
Zadie Smith
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Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
John W. Snow
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A sense of style can be sort of fun, as long as it doesn't get in the way.
Edward N. Ney
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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
Rajneesh
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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
Carol Burnett
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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