Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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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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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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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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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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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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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I started out doing musicals.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
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Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.
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Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it.
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
