Douglas Coupland Quotes

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ProfessionalTherapyReasonTurnGet

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

GoodCreativeIdeasThinkingThought

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Meghan Ory

LoveFunYouActingFantasyMaybe

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

CharacterRelationshipInteresting

For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.

Stephanie Coontz

WomenWonderEmotionalRomanceStill

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

Sukarno

StartStandImperialismNeedAlways

The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

Roger Penrose

WorkImaginationMindHandsTrue

One thing I've learned is that when you shoot something in the U.K., there's always going to be somebody called Trevor on your set. And maybe a Nigel. Occasionally a Colin.

Michael Landes

YouAlwaysShootSomethingGoing

I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy.

Lou Barlow

MusicCommunityMusiciansTrying

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

LifePathWalkMenGardeningDown

If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

Chris Hadfield

FoodSpaceFlyYouSameImpression

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well.

Chino Moreno

SleepTeamAnythingWell

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

Clive Owen

FeelYoungGetWhoI FeelThose

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