Douglas Coupland Quotes

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LookingPresentBecomeInvisible

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

TravelWorldPerceptionRealitySame

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Robert Rodriguez

FantasyEverythingAdultKidsMovie

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.

Michael Franti

MusicPeopleAmericaDoorsYouSee

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

BusinessMusicBestMeFaceThought

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Simon McBurney

PoliticsWarPeopleBetrayalLiving

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleInterestingFlatteryAlways

If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it.

Rupert Friend

LifeLiveChanceYouNeedGoing

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

SimpleBookMotivationViewEasy

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.

Mary Roach

WorkSimpleResearchSexFindNow

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

Johnny Depp

GoodMyselfMeNewHeightsNever

I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.

Cory Monteith

LiveCityRoommatesHollywoodPretty

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.

Anthony McCarten

LifeHumorDeathToughDecisions

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