Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
Calvin Peete
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
Veronica Roth
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A. R. Rahman
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Ed Wood
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Barry Humphries
