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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Failure Opportunity You Sometimes

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Power People Pressure Circumstances

I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.

Love Beautiful Simple People Actor

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Girl School Poetry People World Try

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Mary Lou Retton

Seeing Delight Would Kids Many

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Alone Time Me Room Paper Favorite

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

Life Me Better Person Better Person

Who lives if India doesn't survive?

Survive India Who Lives

I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.

Want My Own Watching Always Own

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

Peter Landesman

Myself Conservative Policy Liberal

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Thomas Keneally

Power Believe Weird You Know Kid

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

You Want See Tone Film Set

When I was young, summers stretched so long, as if they'd never end. Days were like marathons of time, riding bikes until my blisters had blisters, endless energy, and not an actual care in the world aside from when 'Paul' could come out and play. Days now feel more like minutes, almost game show like.

Time World Game Energy Care End

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