Douglas Coupland Quotes

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulPeopleSpeakYouWantTry

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

Jill Sobule

WomanMeSongHellWantWhatever

Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

Andy Dunn

DiversityPoliticalToleranceAmerica

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Jef I. Richards

AdvertisingBadOutEmbarrassing

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

LoveCharacterCareerNewsSayMuch

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

Steven Johnson

DoorYouPossibleNeedOpenError

I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!

RM

Wake UpHotelBackDownGoNothing

Anything that is good influences the next thing. It's inevitable. I believe that Hollywood influences the comics, and the comics influence Hollywood - it's a cycle.

Rob Liefeld

GoodInfluenceBelieveInevitable

We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.

Rose George

MorningWaterIceParisDinosaurs

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Luis Alberto Urrea

LifeStoryKnowDyingDirtUp

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

Deborah Moggach

FailureMarriageBlameThinkPerson

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

David Seltzer

LoveMyselfImaginationMeDirection

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

Christopher Guest

Move OnKnowMoveDocumentaryWanted

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