Douglas Coupland Quotes
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
