Douglas Coupland Quotes

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkHard WorkDoingEarlyGo

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

Jennifer Egan

PeopleFeelYouPicturesNothing

Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.

John Fleming

Working TogetherTogetherHouseNow

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

John Constable

NatureSpringFountainHeadSource

Silence is the wit of fools.

Anatole France

SilenceFoolsWit

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

Robert Goulet

TimeChampionFriendsBecomeOver

Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we were getting away with it - nobody seemed to know these were original tracks.

Angus Young

BeginningBackPlayNobodyGoKnow

I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.

Trevor Dunn

LovePlayingCompositionStrictVery

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Robert Dale Owen

ManDangerousBecomeAlwaysProperty

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

Logan Marshall-Green

FatherMotherKidGoingYourNerd

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

Juan Manuel Fangio

SchoolHellBetterLearnLongSaid

Religious or biblical can sometimes be a little soft, but 'A.D.' doesn't shy away from the violence of the time, the political intrigue. The story is really about the resurrection of faith, which is how the disciples went about keeping the word of Christ. So, they found all kinds of trouble and problems and torture and persecution.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

FaithTimeStoryProblemsPolitical

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Josh Young

KnowJewishI Was RaisedAnything

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