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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art Creativity Wonder Kind Bigger

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.

God Money I Am Mind Me Blessed

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.

Business Personality Woman Book Way

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Problems Anxiety Hobby Create Crime

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

Television Phone Know Ridiculous Why

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

Together New York Parents Small Born

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

History Expectations Reach Political

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Fear Children People Bad Judgment

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Focus I Am Writing Seeing Always Am

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

Day Government Spark Will Becoming

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

Work Best You Working Jim

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

World Think I Can Done Say Things

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell

Nature Mountain View Distance Hue

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