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Douglas Coupland Quotes

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Past Present You Look Either

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Bike Jazz Band Riding First Drums

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

Community Time Men Doing You Gay

I don't ever want to be that guy who gets too big to take time to sign an autograph or take a picture, because I just know, without those fans, I'm nobody. A lot of people forget that fact when they make it.

Time People Picture Nobody Know Big

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Understand Listen Reply Intent

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Perseverance Believe You Want Write

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Me Bridges Fresh Keep How Taught

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

Robbie Robertson

Country Lived Cause Cowboys Guitars

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

Affect Only Criminals Restrictions

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.

Business Food Government City Small

Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.

Good Business Time School Me Think

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Live Stress Pain War Cool World

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

Imagination Effort Memory Fog Mind

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