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" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "
Douglas Coupland
Something
Just
Mix
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" 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. "
Douglas Coupland
Experience
People
Life
" With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. "
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People
Knowing
Google
" You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. "
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Mad
Life
Because
" Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. "
Douglas Coupland
Financial
Dating
People
" I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is. "
Douglas Coupland
Present
Thought
You
" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "
Douglas Coupland
Want
Patient
More
" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "
Douglas Coupland
Name
Dead
Quick
" If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? "
Douglas Coupland
Then
Tree
You
" Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. "
Douglas Coupland
Exist
Living
Negative
" Every single moment is a coincidence. "
Douglas Coupland
Coincidence
Single
Moment
" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "
Douglas Coupland
Society
Forever
Like
" It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. "
Douglas Coupland
Art
World
Law
" If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? "
Douglas Coupland
Life
Would
Your
" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "
Douglas Coupland
You
Like
Mind
" We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. "
Douglas Coupland
Species
Whatever
Our
" Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. "
Douglas Coupland
Face
World
Value
" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "
Douglas Coupland
Living
Out
Drink
" 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. "
Douglas Coupland
Think
Elegance
Fashion
" Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. "
Douglas Coupland
Strong
Brain
Day
" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "
Douglas Coupland
Pet
Now
Illegal
" I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things. "
Douglas Coupland
Furniture
Too Much
Art
" The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. "
Douglas Coupland
Nothing
Down
Fence
" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "
Douglas Coupland
Money
Become
Infrastructure
" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "
Douglas Coupland
Homework
Trying
People
" 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
Poetry
Speak
Voice
" Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. "
Douglas Coupland
Free
Time
Too Much
" I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit. "
Douglas Coupland
Little
Like
See
" The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. "
Douglas Coupland
Hands
Opportunities
Universe
" You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. "
Douglas Coupland
People
Google
You
" I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. "
Douglas Coupland
Know
Idea
Admire