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" If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. "
Douglas Coupland
You
Kindness
Act
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" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "
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Me
" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "
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" Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. "
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Place
" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "
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" I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags. "
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" Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you. "
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Take
Holiday
" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "
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Like
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Hand
" When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. "
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Crop
You
Tell
" I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. "
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Just Because
You
Weird
" Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. "
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People
Almost
Common
" I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. "
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New York
Me
Live
" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "
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Family
Same
" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "
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Real
1990s
Felt
" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "
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People
What If
Like
" Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. "
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Never
Earth
Technology
" Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. "
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Sometimes
Failure
You
" In our heads we're all about 33 years old. "
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Old
Years
About
" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "
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Stylish
Fashion
Brain
" There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. "
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Dream
Small
Said
" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "
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Lead
Dead
Amazing
" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "
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Way
Feels
Never
" Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. "
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Only
" I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. "
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Think
Elegance
Fashion
" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "
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Fun
Everything
Brothers
" Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. "
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Going
Disappear
Well
" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "
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Fine
God
Cloning
" Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. "
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Writing
Focus
Great
" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "
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Money
Become
Infrastructure
" I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. "
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Trouble
Like
Seafood
" I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. "
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Walk
Time