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Douglas Coupland Quotes

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

Smile Good Light Moment Past Green

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Best Me Growing Up Gift Jazz Silver

I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

Music Credit Side Industry Shady

When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.

Time Believe Someone You First Time

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Tristram Stuart

Art Food Purpose Plants Birds Easy

My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.

Focus Simple Basketball Comfort Keep

Television had a black president long before Barack Obama.

Black Long Television President Had

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

Connected Never Ability Anything

I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

Love People Writing Singing Enjoy

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

Life Battle You Perfect Go Want

I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Jay R. Ferguson

Men I Am Cool Proud Mad Been

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Ego Enough Go Places Keep Get

Sevier County is a great area.

Great Area County

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