Douglas Coupland Quotes
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.
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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
