Lauren Beukes Quotes

I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

Lauren Beukes

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Song

• 'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Stars
  • Awesome
  • Dancing

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Men
  • Why

• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Real
  • American
  • America

• I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

  

  Darlene Love
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • May
  • Nature

• I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Time
  • Friends
  • American