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" Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. "
Douglas Coupland
Your Body
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" 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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" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "
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" Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. "
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" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "
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" It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. "
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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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" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "
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" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "
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" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "
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" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "
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" I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. "
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" 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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" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "
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" If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. "
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" In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. "
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Checked
" You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. "
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" 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. "
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World
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" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "
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Most
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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. "
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" When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. "
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" I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony. "
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" I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. "
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" It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. "
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