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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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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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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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.
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Instead, the continued secretion of stress hormones is expressed as agitation and panic.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
