Douglas Coupland Quotes
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
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Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
