Douglas Coupland Quotes

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DreamsAgePastLookEscapeOutside

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Megan Smith

IdeasPlayWayGreatestStartedGet

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.

Michael Dirda

LifeWritingFriendsSomeoneVanity

I love the Weather Channel because my mood changes a lot according to the weather!

Stefano Gabbana

LoveWeatherMoodChangesBecause

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

GoBellNextWhistleSaxophoneLike

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Michelle Bachelet

WomenPlacesDeserveOthersBig

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

Michelle Yeoh

CharacterI CanImportantTakeGive

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

GoodHistoryFamousWantSureJust

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Dick Van Dyke

Stock MarketLostOldEverything

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

Chris Gethard

LifeStruggleSayingStrongThink

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

Chris Pine

GoodFatherBusinessWinGameYou

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

Annie Besant

MotherMomentProcessBodyFirstUp

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Algernon Blackwood

StrangeWildSpinningTasteTell

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