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" Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke. "

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" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

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" I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. "

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" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

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" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "

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" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

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