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Most of us have only two or t...

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

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

There's nothing cure or funny...

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

If someone decides to be a mu...

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

On TV people look at your hai...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Is there anything in the worl...

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I'm suspicious of places that...

I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I think social and moral dise...

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

As a form of escapism, yearni...

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I'm a visual thinker. Researc...

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Self-delusion is one of the f...

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

If you have a great idea, you...

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?

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

The Internet has destroyed ir...

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Most time capsules, when they...

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

No-tech tourism is a form of ...

No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I was always the youngest per...

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

By your thirties, you should ...

By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I keep vampire hours, going t...

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Fashionable people can opt ou...

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.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

I've always thought that you ...

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 371 quotes

If you waste five minutes of ...

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.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....