Douglas Coupland Quotes
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.
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People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same-'
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
