Douglas Coupland Quotes

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryWritingVoiceSpeakThink

I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.

Jessie James Decker

LoveFoodThinkItalian FoodJust

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

John Ashcroft

EffortWashingtonNeedCapacityOur

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Jello Biafra

MusicWritingStartSan Francisco

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Michael Chang

LightCultureTryingYouSometimes

My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

LifeAgeChildrenPerspectiveMom

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

Troy Carter

AmericaYouShiftHappeningHuge

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

Tom Osborne

PreparationChallengesGameHelpYou

I am an anthologist, you see. I sort of make anthologies for people.

Roger Rees

I AmPeopleYouSeeMakeSort

'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets.

Michaela Watkins

MeYearDreamTrueRegretsCome

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Millie Bobby Brown

LifeSchoolMy LifePlayDoneNever

I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.

Lois Chiles

GirlSmallBondTexasMoviesNever

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

Joss Whedon

LifeCultureWomanSoulManBalance

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